Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 91

Buh Rabbit mek answer say him mussnt faid; dat him gwine pit saddle on de horse, an wen Buh Wolf git een um eh gwine tie eh leg so him cant fall off; an, mo ner dat, him gwine git up behine fuh hole um on.

Who acts: Rabbit, wen, ner dat · What happens: answer, say, dat, leg, fall off, um on · To what, where: Rabbit · 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 (Rabbit, wen, ner dat), 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	_	4 answer	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	flat
4	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answer	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	mussnt	mussnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 faid	compound
8	faid	faid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 dat	punct
10	dat	dat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answer	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dat	obj
12	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saddle	amod
13	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saddle	compound
14	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dat	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 horse	compound
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saddle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wen	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wen	det
20	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leg	nsubj
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wen	appos
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 um	compound
24	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 git	flat
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leg	nsubj
26	eh	eh	ADV	_	27 gwine	advmod
27	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leg	amod
28	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leg	compound
29	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leg	amod
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dat	parataxis
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 cant	mark
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cant	nsubj
33	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fall	advcl
34	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dat	advcl
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 fall	compound:prt
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 dat	punct
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 dat	det
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dat	punct
39	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ner	compound
40	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 dat	compound
41	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 um	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 him	punct
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 dat	conj
44	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 git	compound
45	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 dat	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	41 dat	compound
47	behine	behine	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 um	nsubj
48	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 um	amod
49	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 um	compound
50	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	parataxis
51	on	on	ADP	_	50 um	compound:prt
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	Rabbit			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		Rabbit	mussnt faid obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme faid=Manner
3	dat	infinitive	Rabbit not said here	Rabbit	gwine pit saddle obj	tree rules
4	leg		a wen		git um nsubj	tree rules
5	fall off	present	Rabbit not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	um on		a ner dat um and gwine git		behine 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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 91