Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 108

Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but de good Lord tell me say only one at er time kin enter Hebben.

Who acts: you, good Lord, one · What happens: bleege, tell, say, enter · To what, where: good Lord, Hebben, time kin, Rabbit mek answer · 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 (you, good Lord, one), 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	_	6 answer	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answer	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Rabbit	conj
5	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Budder	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Budder	punct
9	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Budder	compound
10	Budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Budder	conj
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bleege	amod
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 bleege	discourse
15	bleege	bleege	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Budder	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 bleege	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
19	de	de	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Lord	amod
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answer	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	xcomp
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 enter	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 kin	case
28	er	er	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kin	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kin	compound
30	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enter	obl
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	ccomp
32	Hebben	Hebben	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 enter	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	bleege in a quote		you			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	good Lord	good Lord = lord		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	good Lord not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	enter in a quote	infinitive	one	Hebben	er time kin	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hebben=Destination

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 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 108