Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

Den Buh Rabbit, him slip een de hole wid er leely calabash, an eh ketch de water duh run down from Buh Deer yeye.

Who acts: Den · What happens: slip, run down · To what, where: een hole, Deer yeye

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 (Den), 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	6 slip	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slip	nsubj
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	9 hole	amod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 een	flat
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obj
10	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calabash	amod
11	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 leely	advmod
12	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calabash	amod
13	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ketch	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ketch	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ketch	amod
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	appos
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 water	compound
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ketch	nmod
20	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 water	discourse
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slip	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 run	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 yeye	case
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Deer	compound
25	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 yeye	compound
26	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 run	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Den	een hole					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	run down	infinitive	Den not said here			Deer yeye			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from yeye=Trajectory

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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 39