Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 69

Buh Rabbit yent lub rain, an eh try fuh shelter ehself onder er oak tree wuh kibber wid long moss.

Who acts: Rabbit, kibber · What happens: shelter, wi · To what, where: ehself, long moss

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 (Rabbit, kibber), 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	INTJ	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	rabbit	X	_	11 shelter	nsubj
3	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rain	amod
4	lub	lub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	compound
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 try	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 try	amod
9	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	conj
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 shelter	discourse
11	shelter	shelter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shelter	obj
13	onder	onder	ADV	_	14 er	advmod
14	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 tree	advmod
15	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shelter	obl
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	19 wid	discourse
18	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wid	nsubj
19	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shelter	conj
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moss	amod
21	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wid	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shelter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	infinitive	Rabbit and a eh try	ehself				oak tree obl	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Patient
2	wi	past	kibber	long moss					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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 69