Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 106

Buh Rabbit tell um say him dist fix ehself dat er way so de Lord kin fine um handy fuh tek um right up eenter Hebben; an den eh say: “Good-bye, Buh Wolf, I leff all me trial behine; you no gwine see me no mo; me gwine leff right off fuh Hebben.”

Who acts: Rabbit, dist, den eh, you · What happens: tell, say, fix, leff, see · To what, where: um, me, ehself, Buh Wolf, trial behine, den eh · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, dist, den eh, you), 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	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	nsubj
8	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
9	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fix	obj
10	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	obj
11	er	er	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	obl:unmarked
13	so	so	ADV	_	8 fix	advmod
14	de	de	ADP	_	16 kin	case
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 kin	compound
16	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 so	obl
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
18	um	um	ADV	_	19 handy	advmod
19	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
20	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
21	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kin	nmod
23	right	right	ADV	_	25 eenter	advmod
24	up	up	ADP	_	25 eenter	case
25	eenter	eenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	appos
26	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 eenter	appos
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eh	det
29	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	compound
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Good	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Good	punct
34	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 say	ccomp
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Good	punct
36	bye	bye	INTJ	_	34 Good	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Wolf	punct
38	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Wolf	compound
39	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 say	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 leff	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 leff	nsubj
42	leff	leff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 behine	det
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 all	iobj
45	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 behine	compound
46	behine	behine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leff	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 see	punct
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 see	nsubj
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 gwine	det
50	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	nsubj
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 say	conj
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 see	obj
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 mo	det
54	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	obj
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 me	punct
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
57	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 leff	compound
58	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 me	flat
59	right	right	ADV	_	61 fuh	advmod
60	off	off	ADP	_	61 fuh	case
61	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	3 tell	discourse
62	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 fuh	vocative
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Rabbit	um	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient um=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Rabbit not said here	um			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	fix	present	dist	ehself		er way obl:unmarked; dat obj	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Beneficiary dat=Product
4	say speech: assert	present	a den eh	Buh Wolf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	leff in a quote	present	a den eh = eh	all trial behine			tree rules
6	see in a quote	infinitive	you	a den eh = eh		no gwine nsubj; no mo obj	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 11, sentence 106