Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 61

Eh bline de Goose, an eh draw eh head out, an wile eh duh fight fuh git de rotten wood outer eh yeye Buh Rabbit slip out an gone.

Who acts: wile eh, Buh · What happens: fight, slip out · To what, where: git, gone, Eh bline

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wile eh, Buh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bline	compound
2	bline	bline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bline	appos
4	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 de	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 head	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 head	amod
8	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	compound
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bline	nmod
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 head	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fight	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
14	wile	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eh	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fight	nsubj
16	duh	duh	INTJ	_	17 fight	discourse
17	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bline	conj
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	19 git	discourse
19	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fight	obj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 git	flat:foreign
21	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wood	amod
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	nsubj
23	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eh	amod
24	eh	eh	X	_	19 git	appos
25	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Buh	nmod:desc
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 slip	nsubj
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Buh	flat
28	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 eh	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 slip	compound:prt
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 gone	det
31	gone	gone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slip	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bline	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	infinitive	a wile eh	git					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Co-Agent
2	slip out	present	Buh yeye	a gone					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gone=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 61