Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 133

All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yeddy ebry ting, duh half kill ehself wid laugh.

Who acts: you, half · What happens: see, kill · To what, where: ebry ting, ehself

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, half), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
2	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl:unmarked
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 squat	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squat	amod
7	squat	squat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
8	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 squat	flat
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 bush	compound
10	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squat	conj
13	eh	eh	ADV	_	14 kin	advmod
14	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nmod
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ting	det
17	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ebry	compound
18	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ting	compound
19	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
21	duh	duh	INTJ	_	23 kill	discourse
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 kill	nsubj
23	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
24	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kill	obj
25	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 laugh	amod
26	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kill	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	a ebry ting			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ting=Stimulus
2	kill	present	half	ehself				wid laugh obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ehself=Experiencer laugh=Result

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 133

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 133