Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 76

Buh Fox him mek answer: “Dat so;” an wid dat eh pit Buh Squirle een front er um, an eh fall on eh knee, an eh kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an eh tun een fuh say grace.

Who acts: you, grace · What happens: fox, say · To what, where: um, eh tun · 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 (you, grace), 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	INTJ	_	2 Fox	discourse
2	Fox	fox	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Fox	obj
4	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Dat	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Dat	punct
8	Dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	appos
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 Dat	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pit	det
13	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pit	amod
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pit	compound
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pit	amod
16	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	obj
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pit	appos
18	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	flat
19	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
20	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
21	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pit	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fall	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fall	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fall	amod
26	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 knee	case
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knee	compound
29	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fall	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kibber	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 kibber	det
32	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 kibber	amod
33	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	conj
34	eh	eh	X	ExtPos=PROPN	33 kibber	appos
35	yeye	yeye	X	_	34 eh	goeswith
36	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 han	amod
37	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 han	compound
38	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eh	flat
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tun	punct
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 tun	det
41	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tun	amod
42	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	conj
43	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 tun	flat
44	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	45 say	discourse
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 tun	acl:relcl
46	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 say	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fox	imperative	you not said here	um				mek answer obj; a wid dat eh pit and een front er um and a eh fall on eh knee and a eh kibber and a eh tun obj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	grace	a eh tun not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tun=Topic

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 76

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 76