Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 59

Buh Roccoon ax Buh Possum wuh mek, wen de dog tackle um, eh double up ehself, an kibber eh yeye wid eh han, an wunt fight lucker man an lick de dog off.

Who acts: Buh dog, eh yeye · What happens: tackle, double up, han · To what, where: um, ehself

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 dog, eh yeye), 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	11 dog	compound
2	Roccoon	Roccoon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	list
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Possum	compound
5	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	list
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	7 mek	discourse
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	list
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wen	punct
9	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	conj
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Buh	flat
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tackle	nsubj
12	tackle	tackle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tackle	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 double	punct
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 double	discourse
16	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tackle	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 double	compound:prt
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 double	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 han	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 han	det
21	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yeye	compound
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 han	nsubj
24	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 han	amod
25	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 han	compound
26	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tackle	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 man	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
29	wunt	wunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
30	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lucker	compound
31	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	compound
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 han	conj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lick	det
34	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dog	compound
35	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 lick	flat:foreign
36	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	32 man	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tackle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tackle	infinitive	Buh dog	um		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
2	double up	infinitive	Buh dog not said here	ehself		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient
3	han		eh yeye		a wunt lucker man and lick dog 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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 59