Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 128

Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh keep duh pile on de lick tell eh tare de crocus an cut de bag down.

Who acts: bex · What happens: say, keep, tell · To what, where: duh pile, tare de crocus, lick · 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 (bex), 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	_	8 say	discourse
2	Alligatuh	alligatuh	INTJ	_	1 Buh	discourse
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
4	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
5	eh	eh	X	ExtPos=PROPN	4 bex	appos
6	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 yeddy	amod
7	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bex	conj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bin	amod
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woice	compound
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 woice	compound
13	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eh	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woice	appos
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
18	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pile	amod
19	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 lick	case
21	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lick	nmod:poss
22	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	advcl
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tare	compound
25	tare	tare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crocus	compound
26	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crocus	amod
27	crocus	crocus	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bag	det
29	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 de	compound
30	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bag	compound
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
32	down	down	ADV	_	23 tell	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	bex and yent yeddy			bin Wolf woice ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	infinitive		duh pile			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present		tare de crocus	de's lick	a de bag obj; down property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crocus=Recipient bag=Topic

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 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 128