Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 73

Buh Squirle, eh dat skaid eh trimble all ober, an eh bague Buh Fox fuh lem go.

Who acts: ober · What happens: go · To what, where: Buh

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 (ober), 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	root	root
2	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 skaid	punct
4	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 skaid	discourse
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skaid	compound
6	skaid	skaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
7	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 trimble	discourse
8	trimble	trimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skaid	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ober	det
10	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bague	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bague	det
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bague	amod
14	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ober	appos
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bague	appos
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lem	amod
18	lem	lem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	list
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 skaid	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	all ober						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 73