Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 74

Buh Fox tell um say eh bin er try fuh ketch um long time, but eh hab sich sharp yeye, an keen yez, an spry leg, eh manage fuh dodge um; an now wen eh got um at las, eh mean fuh kill um an eat um.

Who acts: Buh, um, hab sich, eh, wen eh · What happens: tell, say, try, yeye, manage, get · To what, where: eh bin, ketch um, fuh dodge um, las, fuh kill um, um · 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 (Buh, um, hab sich, eh), 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
6	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bin	amod
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	er	er	PART	_	9 try	mark
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	12 um	discourse
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 um	compound
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 try	obj
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 yeye	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 yeye	cc
17	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sich	det
18	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sich	compound
19	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 yeye	nsubj
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 yeye	amod
21	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 yez	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 yez	det
24	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 yez	amod
25	yez	yez	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 yeye	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leg	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 leg	det
28	spry	spry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 leg	amod
29	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 yeye	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 manage	punct
31	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 manage	nsubj
32	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
33	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 um	amod
34	dodge	dodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 manage	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 got	punct
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 eh	det
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 eh	advmod
39	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eh	compound
40	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	nsubj
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
42	um	um	ADV	_	41 got	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 las	case
44	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 got	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mean	punct
46	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 mean	nsubj
47	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 got	parataxis
48	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 um	amod
49	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 um	compound
50	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mean	obj
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 eat	det
52	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 mean	conj
53	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 eat	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Buh					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	um	eh bin				tree rules
3	try	infinitive		ketch um		time		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality
4	yeye		eh hab sich				a keen yez conj; a spry leg conj	tree rules
5	manage	present	eh	fuh dodge um				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
6	get	past	a wen eh		las			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	mean	present	eh	fuh kill um				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Topic
8	eat	present	eh not said here	um				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 74

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 74