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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

De Ole Man gree fuh do so, an eh liff Buh Rabbit up, an eh pit um een eh waggin long side de pile er fish.

Who acts: Ole Man, eh liff · What happens: gree, do, rabbit up · To what, where: fuh, eh pit um

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 (Ole Man, eh liff), 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

compoundcompoundnsubjobjconjadvmodpunctdetamodnsubjapposadvclcompound:prtpunctdetamodcompoundoblflatcasegoeswithamodcompoundcompoundcompoundcompoundnmodpunctrootDePROPNOlePROPNManPROPNgreeVERBfuhNOUNdoVERBsoADV,PUNCTanDETehADJliffNOUNBuhPROPNRabbitVERBupADP,PUNCTanDETehADJpitNOUNumNOUNeenNUMehADPwagginXlongADJsideNOUNdeNOUNpileNOUNerNOUNfishNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DeDePROPNNumber=Sing2 Olecompound
2OleOlePROPNNumber=Sing3 Mancompound
3ManManPROPNNumber=Sing4 greensubj
4greegreeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
5fuhfuhNOUNNumber=Sing4 greeobj
6dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 greeconj
7sosoADV_13 Rabbitadvmod
8,,PUNCT_13 Rabbitpunct
9anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 liffdet
10ehehADJDegree=Pos11 liffamod
11liffliffNOUNNumber=Sing13 Rabbitnsubj
12BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing11 liffappos
13RabbitrabbitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 doadvcl
14upupADP_13 Rabbitcompound:prt
15,,PUNCT_19 umpunct
16anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 umdet
17ehehADJDegree=Pos19 umamod
18pitpitNOUNNumber=Sing19 umcompound
19umumNOUNNumber=Sing13 Rabbitobl
20eeneenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 umflat
21ehehADPTypo=Yes28 fishcase
22wagginwagginX_21 ehgoeswith
23longlongADJDegree=Pos24 sideamod
24sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing25 decompound
25dedeNOUNNumber=Sing26 pilecompound
26pilepileNOUNNumber=Sing27 ercompound
27ererNOUNNumber=Sing28 fishcompound
28fishfishNOUNNumber=Plur19 umnmod
29..PUNCT_4 greepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1greeinfinitiveOle Manfuhtree rules
2dopresentOle Man not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3rabbit uppresenta eh liffa eh pit um eh er fishvn berry-13.7 «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.

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