Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 25

Buh Rabbit, him bin berry lub de gal, an him hanker arter marry um, so eh study bout de ting an mek eh scheme.

Who acts: bin · What happens: bin, hanker, marry · To what, where: berry lub, arter, um, Rabbit

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 (bin), 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	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bin	nsubj
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Rabbit	parataxis
6	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lub	compound
7	lub	lub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj
8	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gal	nmod:poss
9	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hanker	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hanker	det
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hanker	nsubj
13	hanker	hanker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bin	conj
14	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanker	obj
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hanker	xcomp
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bout	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 bout	advmod
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 study	amod
20	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bout	compound
21	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	appos
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 ting	compound
23	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bout	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scheme	det
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 scheme	compound
26	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scheme	compound
27	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ting	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Rabbit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present	bin	berry lub	de's gal obj	tree rules
2	hanker	infinitive	bin	arter		tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	bin not said here	um		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 25