Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 33

Bimeby Buh Deer, him come long duh eat grass, an befo eh fine out, de groun gie way onder eh foot, an eh drap bottom er de hole.

Who acts: EH, long duh, grass · What happens: come, eat, gie, drap · To what, where: way eh foot, bottom, Bimeby

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 (EH, long duh, grass), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	flat
3	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bimeby	parataxis
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 duh	amod
8	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gie	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 befo	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 befo	det
13	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grass	appos
14	eh	eh	ADV	_	15 fine	advmod
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 befo	amod
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 fine	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 de	punct
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 grass	conj
19	groun	groun	X	Foreign=Yes	18 de	flat
20	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	parataxis
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	compound
22	onder	onder	ADV	_	23 eh	advmod
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foot	amod
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gie	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eh	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eh	det
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	conj
28	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gie	conj
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drap	obj
30	er	er	X	_	32 hole	compound
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 er	flat:foreign
32	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drap	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bimeby	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	EH			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	long duh			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gie	present	grass	way eh foot and a eh		tree rules
4	drap	infinitive	grass not said here	bottom	er hole obj	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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 33