Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 131

Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh Rabbit bin fool um an git um fuh tek eh place een de bag.

Who acts: Den Wolf pardon, Buh · What happens: tell, bin · To what, where: um huccum, fool · 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 (Den Wolf pardon, 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pardon	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Alligatuh	Alligatuh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	list
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pardon	compound
7	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 um	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 um	det
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pardon	conj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 huccum	compound
14	huccum	huccum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bin	nsubj
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	parataxis
18	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obj
19	um	um	ADP	_	22 um	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 um	det
21	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obl
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	26 place	discourse
24	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	compound
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	conj
27	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 place	flat
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 bag	compound
29	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Den Wolf pardon and a mek um	um huccum					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huccum=Recipient
2	bin	present	Buh	fool				um a git um and tek eh place and de bag	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fool=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 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 131