Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 63

Den eh biggin fuh spicion say Buh Rabbit might er git out, an eh tackle de Goose bout um.

Who acts: Den, biggin, Buh Rabbit, eh tackle · What happens: eh, say, er out, um · To what, where: git · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Den, biggin, Buh Rabbit, eh tackle), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
4	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spicion	amod
5	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 biggin	conj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eh	ccomp
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 er	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 er	aux
10	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
11	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 er	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 um	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tackle	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tackle	amod
16	tackle	tackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	nsubj
17	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tackle	appos
18	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
19	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eh	past	Den		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	biggin and fuh spicion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	er out	might	Buh Rabbit	git	tree rules
4	um		a eh tackle		tree rules

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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 63