Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

Wile Buh Fox bin er do dis, Buh Squirle manage fuh slip way; an wen Buh Fox open eh yeye, eh see Buh Squirle duh run up de tree way him couldnt tetch um.

Who acts: Wile bin er, Buh, fuh, wen Fox, open eh yeye, Buh duh · What happens: do, manage, slip, yeye, see, run up · To what, where: dis, way, tree way, tetch 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 (Wile bin er, Buh, fuh, wen Fox), 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	Wile	Wile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 er	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wile	flat
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	compound
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 er	compound
5	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 manage	punct
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 manage	nsubj
10	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	conj
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slip	nsubj
13	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 manage	ccomp
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slip	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 yeye	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wen	det
17	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Fox	compound
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wen	appos
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yeye	nsubj
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 yeye	amod
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yeye	compound
22	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
24	eh	eh	INTJ	_	25 see	discourse
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 yeye	acl
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 duh	compound
27	Squirle	Squirle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Buh	flat
28	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 run	nsubj
29	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 run	compound:prt
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 way	advmod
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	compound
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 couldnt	nsubj
35	couldnt	couldnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	33 way	acl:relcl
36	tetch	tetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 um	compound
37	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 couldnt	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	Wile bin er	dis	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dis=Eventuality
2	manage	present	Buh		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	slip	present	fuh	way	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	yeye		wen Fox		tree rules
5	see	infinitive	open eh yeye not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	run up	present	Buh duh	tree way	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	couldnt	present	Buh	tetch um	tree rules

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 77

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 77