Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 97

Steader dat, wen Buh Wolf yent bin er notus, eh step back, an eh tek er bunch er cock-spur an eh lick um onder de horse tail.

Who acts: Steader dat, er · What happens: step back, spur · To what, where: eh tek

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 (Steader dat, er), 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	Steader	Steader	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wen	punct
4	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bin	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bin	amod
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	appos
9	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 notus	advmod
10	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	13 step	discourse
13	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 step	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tek	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tek	det
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tek	amod
18	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	obl
19	er	er	CCONJ	_	20 bunch	cc
20	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tek	conj
21	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 spur	nmod:poss
22	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spur	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 cock	punct
24	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tek	nmod
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 um	amod
27	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spur	appos
29	onder	onder	ADV	_	32 tail	advmod
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 tail	advmod
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tail	compound
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step back	infinitive	Steader dat and wen	a eh tek er's cock spur er bunch					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spur		er						nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 97