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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

Buh Alligatur yeddy um; an bimeby eh crawl outer de mash grass, an eh leddown close by Buh Rabbit, so him kin ketch all wuh Buh Rabbit der play an der sing.

Who acts: bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit · What happens: crawl, leddown, ketch, play · To what, where: outer de mash grass, eh, der sing, Buh yeddy um

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 (bimeby eh, EH, Buh Rabbit), 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

compoundflatcompoundpunctdetcompoundnsubjconjamodamodcompoundobjpunctdetapposacladvmodcaseoblflatpunctadvmodnsubjamodobldetdiscoursecompoundnsubjamodacl:relcldetamodobjpunctrootBuhPROPNAlligaturPROPNyeddyNOUNumNOUN;PUNCTanDETbimebyNOUNehNOUNcrawlVERBouterADJdeADJmashNOUNgrassNOUN,PUNCTanDETehNOUNleddownVERBcloseADVbyADPBuhPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCTsoADVhimPRONkinADJketchNOUNallDETwuhINTJBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNderADJplayVERBanDETderADJsingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing4 umcompound
2AlligaturAlligaturPROPNNumber=Sing1 Buhflat
3yeddyyeddyNOUNNumber=Sing4 umcompound
4umumNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5;;PUNCT_9 crawlpunct
6anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 ehdet
7bimebybimebyNOUNNumber=Sing8 ehcompound
8ehehNOUNNumber=Sing9 crawlnsubj
9crawlcrawlVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 umconj
10outerouterADJDegree=Pos13 grassamod
11dedeADJDegree=Pos13 grassamod
12mashmashNOUNNumber=Sing13 grasscompound
13grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing9 crawlobj
14,,PUNCT_16 ehpunct
15anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 ehdet
16ehehNOUNNumber=Sing13 grassappos
17leddownleddownVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 ehacl
18closecloseADVDegree=Pos17 leddownadvmod
19bybyADP_20 Buhcase
20BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing17 leddownobl
21RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing20 Buhflat
22,,PUNCT_26 ketchpunct
23sosoADV_26 ketchadvmod
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 ketchnsubj
25kinkinADJDegree=Pos26 ketchamod
26ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing9 crawlobl
27allallDETPronType=Tot30 Rabbitdet
28wuhwuhINTJ_30 Rabbitdiscourse
29BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing30 Rabbitcompound
30RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing32 playnsubj
31derdADJDegree=Cmp30 Rabbitamod
32playplayVERBVerbForm=Inf26 ketchacl:relcl
33anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 singdet
34derdADJDegree=Cmp35 singamod
35singsingNOUNNumber=Sing32 playobj
36..PUNCT_4 umpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1crawlpresenta bimeby ehouter de mash grassvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location grass=Theme
2leddownparticiplea eh not said hereby Buh; close propertytree rules
3ketchEHtree rules
4playinfinitiveall Buh Rabbita der singvn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=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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