Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 31

Den Buh Rabbit notus way Buh Deer blan ramble der wood, an eh dig er deep hole, an eh kibber um ober complete long dut, an pine straw, an oak leaf.

Who acts: um ober · What happens: dut · To what, where: der wood

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 (um ober), 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	5 way	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	compound
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	nmod:desc
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wood	nsubj
7	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ramble	amod
9	ramble	ramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	nsubj
10	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	compound
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dig	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dig	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dig	amod
15	dig	dig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	conj
16	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 deep	advmod
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hole	amod
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dig	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dut	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dut	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dut	amod
22	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ober	compound
24	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dut	nsubj
25	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dut	amod
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dut	amod
27	dut	dut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 straw	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 straw	det
30	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 straw	compound
31	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dut	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 leaf	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 leaf	det
34	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaf	compound
35	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dut		um ober					a pine straw conj	tree rules

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 31