Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

Buh Rabbit run day, an eh tell um say dog bin on eh track, an dat dem mose git day.

Who acts: Buh, eh tell um · What happens: run, say, mose · To what, where: dog bin, eh track · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Buh, eh tell um), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 um	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 um	amod
8	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 um	compound
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	parataxis
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bin	compound
12	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 track	case
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 track	amod
15	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dem	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dem	det
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dem	compound
19	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 track	conj
20	mose	mose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	parataxis
21	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 day	compound
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mose	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	run	present	Buh			day	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a eh tell um	dog bin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic
3	mose	present			eh track and a dat dem	day	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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 37