Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

Es eh pass by Buh Wolf house, eh notus Buh Wolf duh set een de do duh play eh fiddle.

Who acts: Es, notus Buh Wolf · What happens: pass, set, play · To what, where: een de, fiddle

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 (Es, notus Buh Wolf), 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	Es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	nsubj
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	3 pass	discourse
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wolf	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pass	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Wolf	punct
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 Wolf	discourse
10	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 set	nsubj
13	duh	duh	INTJ	_	14 set	discourse
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	conj
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 de	nummod
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	obj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 play	aux
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 play	discourse
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
20	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fiddle	det
21	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 play	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	infinitive	Es		by Wolf house	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location
2	set	infinitive	notus Buh Wolf	een de		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient de=Result
3	play	present · do-support	Es not said here	eh fiddle		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 71