Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 130

Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time say eh binner whale up Buh Wolf, steader Buh Rabbit wuh bin tief eh agg.

Who acts: Wen, Buh · What happens: scuffle, fine out, say · To what, where: outer de bag, eh binner whale · 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 (Wen, Buh), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scuffle	nsubj
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	3 scuffle	discourse
3	scuffle	scuffle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bag	amod
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 bag	compound
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scuffle	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
9	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scuffle	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 fine	compound:prt
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 say	discourse
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 time	dep
14	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl:unmarked
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fine	conj
17	eh	eh	X	_	19 whale	compound
18	binner	binner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whale	compound
19	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	22 Wolf	case
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Wolf	compound
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 whale	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 steader	punct
24	steader	steader	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whale	appos
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 steader	appos
26	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Buh	flat
27	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tief	amod
28	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tief	compound
29	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 steader	conj
30	eh	eh	INTJ	_	31 agg	discourse
31	agg	agg	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tief	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scuffle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scuffle	infinitive	Wen	outer de bag			tree rules
2	fine out	past	Buh				vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	Buh not said here	eh binner whale	time	up Buh Wolf	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whale=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 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 130