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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 89

Buh Rabbit ride de horse ter him house, an eh sen wud ter Buh Wolf say him dist bin buy er fine ridin horse, an him want um fuh come an tek er ride long um.

Who acts: Buh, eh sen, dist bin, um · What happens: ride, ter, say, buy, want, come · To what, where: de horse, horse, fine ridin horse, um, tek er, long 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, eh sen, dist bin, um), 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

nsubjflatcompoundobjcaseamodoblpunctdetamodnsubjauxconjnsubjflatparataxisobjcompoundnsubjparataxisadvmodamodcompoundobjpunctdetnsubjparataxisobjdiscoursexcompdetcompoundobjconjamodobjpunctrootBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNrideVERBdeXhorseNOUNterADPhimPRONhouseNOUN,PUNCTanDETehADJsenNOUNwudAUXterVERBBuhPROPNWolfPROPNsayVERBhimPRONdistNOUNbinNOUNbuyVERBerADVfineADJridinNOUNhorseNOUN,PUNCTanDEThimPRONwantVERBumNOUNfuhINTJcomeVERBanDETtekNOUNerNOUNrideVERBlongADJumNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing3 ridensubj
2RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Buhflat
3riderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4dedeXForeign=Yes5 horsecompound
5horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing3 rideobj
6terterADP_8 housecase
7himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 houseamod
8househouseNOUNNumber=Sing3 rideobl
9,,PUNCT_14 terpunct
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 sendet
11ehehADJDegree=Pos12 senamod
12sensenNOUNNumber=Sing14 ternsubj
13wudwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 teraux
14terterVERBVerbForm=Inf3 rideconj
15BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing17 saynsubj
16WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing15 Buhflat
17saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 terparataxis
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 sayobj
19distdistNOUNNumber=Sing20 bincompound
20binbinNOUNNumber=Sing21 buynsubj
21buybuyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 sayparataxis
22ererADV_23 fineadvmod
23finefineADJDegree=Pos25 horseamod
24ridinridinNOUNNumber=Plur25 horsecompound
25horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing21 buyobj
26,,PUNCT_29 wantpunct
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 wantdet
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wantnsubj
29wantwantVERBVerbForm=Inf17 sayparataxis
30umumNOUNNumber=Sing29 wantobj
31fuhfuhINTJ_32 comediscourse
32comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 wantxcomp
33anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 erdet
34tektekNOUNNumber=Sing35 ercompound
35ererNOUNNumber=Sing32 comeobj
36riderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 wantconj
37longlongADJDegree=Pos38 umamod
38umumNOUNNumber=Sing36 rideobj
39..PUNCT_3 ridepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ridepresentBuhde horseter him housevn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2terwoulda eh sentree rules
3say speech: assertpresentBuhhorsevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4buypresentdist binfine ridin horsevn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5wantinfinitiveBuhumtree rules
6come not said to happeninfinitiveum not said herea tek ervn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location er=Theme
7ridepresentBuh not said herelong umvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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