Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

Den de Dog know fuh sutten say Buh Rabbit bin wuk dat plan fuh git way, an dat eh done gone fuh true.

Who acts: Den, sutten · What happens: know, say, do · To what, where: Buh, dat eh · 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, sutten), 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	4 know	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
6	sutten	sutten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
11	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	compound
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	compound
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	appos
14	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
15	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	compound
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
19	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eh	amod
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	appos
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 eh	acl
22	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 done	xcomp
23	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 true	amod
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gone	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	infinitive	Den			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	sutten	Buh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic
3	do	participle		a dat eh not said here	gone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/10/66/

🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 66