Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 87

Buh Rabbit, him gree fuh do so ef de Buckra man would len um one horse, an would prommus no fuh tell Buh Wolf nuttne bout de ting.

Who acts: Rabbit, prommus · What happens: gree, len, bout · To what, where: fuh, um

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 (Rabbit, prommus), 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 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 len	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gree	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gree	nsubj
5	gree	gree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Rabbit	parataxis
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gree	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 len	aux
8	so	so	ADV	_	14 len	advmod
9	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 len	nsubj
10	de	de	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 man	compound
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ef	nmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 len	aux
14	len	len	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 len	obj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 horse	nummod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 len	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prommus	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prommus	det
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 prommus	aux
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bout	nsubj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 tell	det
23	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tell	amod
24	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bout	nsubj
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tell	appos
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Buh	flat
27	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bout	compound
28	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 len	parataxis
29	de	de	ADP	_	30 ting	case
30	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bout	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 len	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gree	present	Rabbit	fuh		tree rules
2	len	would · present · do-support	Rabbit	um	ef de Buckra man nsubj; one horse obj	tree rules
3	bout		a prommus		de ting; no fuh tell nsubj	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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 87