Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 107

Buh Wolf now, him yent hab no better sense den fuh bleebe wuh Buh Rabbit duh talk; an eh bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him jine um an go long um.

Who acts: Buh, jine um · What happens: hab, go · To what, where: long um, Rabbit duh talk

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 (Buh, jine 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 talk	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 den	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hab	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hab	nsubj
6	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hab	amod
7	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 den	compound
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sense	amod
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 den	compound
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 den	discourse
13	bleebe	bleebe	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Buh	dep
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	18 talk	discourse
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rabbit	compound
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 talk	compound
17	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talk	amod
18	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bague	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bague	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bague	amod
22	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talk	appos
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bague	appos
24	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	flat
25	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 bague	discourse
26	leh	leh	INTJ	_	29 um	discourse
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leh	obj
28	jine	jine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talk	parataxis
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 go	det
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 um	acl:relcl
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 um	amod
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hab		Buh						tree rules
2	go	present	jine um not said here	long um					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 107