Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

Buh Wolf, him come, an wen eh look topper de horse eh tell Buh Rabbit him would lub fuh ride um, but dat him faid say de horse gwine fling um.

Who acts: Buh, wen eh, topper, faid · What happens: come, look, tell, lub, ride, dat · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, um, de horse · 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, wen eh, topper, faid), 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	5 come	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
8	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
11	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eh	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eh	compound
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 topper	flat
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	parataxis
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Rabbit	compound
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lub	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lub	aux
20	lub	lub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	ccomp
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 ride	discourse
22	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lub	conj
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ride	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dat	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 dat	cc
26	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dat	obj
28	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 say	nsubj
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dat	ccomp
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 horse	compound
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
32	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 um	amod
33	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 um	compound
34	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 horse	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	present	Buh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive	a wen eh			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	present	topper		Buh Rabbit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lub	would	Buh			tree rules
5	ride	infinitive	Buh not said here	um		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
6	dat	past	Buh not said here	um		tree rules
7	say speech: assert	present	faid	de horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=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 90

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 90