Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 66

Buh Wolf yeye shet tight, an eh dis bin er rock from side ter side, an draw eh bow teh eh berry lenk, en der pat de time wid eh foot.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: bow · To what, where: eh berry lenk

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), 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	21 bow	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shet	compound
4	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	4 shet	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bin	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bin	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bin	amod
9	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bin	compound
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
11	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 rock	amod
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bin	appos
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 side	case
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	compound
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	compound
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rock	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
19	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eh	compound
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
21	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	teh	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art Typo=Yes	25 lenk	det
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lenk	amod
24	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lenk	compound
25	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bow	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lenk	conj
28	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 pat	amod
29	pat	pat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lenk	conj
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 pat	flat:foreign
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pat	conj
32	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 foot	amod
33	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 foot	compound
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	present	Buh	the eh berry lenk and en and der pat and time and wid eh foot					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lenk=Topic

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 66