Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 65

De Goose tell um how Buh Rabbit bin trow rotten wood een eh yeye wen eh bin er peep up de holler.

Who acts: De, Buh · What happens: tell, trow, peep up · To what, where: um, rotten wood, de holler · 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 (De, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 trow	advmod
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 trow	nsubj
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
9	trow	trow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
10	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trow	obj
12	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 wood	flat
13	eh	eh	ADP	_	17 bin	case
14	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wen	compound
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	compound
17	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trow	obl
18	er	er	PART	_	19 peep	mark
19	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trow	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 peep	compound:prt
21	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holler	compound
22	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 peep	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	De	um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic
2	trow	present	Buh	rotten wood	eh wen eh bin	tree rules
3	peep up	infinitive	Buh not said here	de holler		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent holler=Theme

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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 65