Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry not on de groun fuh pit way fuh feed ehself an eh fambly duh winter time.

What happens: feed · To what, where: ehself, busy gedder hickry

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: 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 berry	compound
2	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 berry	compound
4	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hickry	nsubj
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hickry	amod
6	duh	duh	INTJ	_	8 hickry	discourse
7	gedder	gedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 hickry	amod
8	hickry	hickry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 de	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 de	case
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 feed	advmod
12	groun	groun	X	Foreign=Yes	11 de	flat
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
14	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	compound
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 groun	obl:unmarked
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 feed	discourse
17	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hickry	advcl
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	obj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feed	obj
21	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	17 feed	advmod
22	duh	duh	INTJ	_	24 time	discourse
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	compound
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hickry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	infinitive		ehself			time	a eh obj; fambly property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient eh=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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 71