Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 72

Buh Wolf so tek up wid eh play dat eh shet eh yeye an yent duh watch wuh gwine on roun um.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: tek up, play · To what, where: dat, roun um

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	4 tek	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tek	advmod
4	tek	tek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tek	compound:prt
6	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tek	xcomp
7	eh	eh	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wid	advcl
9	dat	dat	X	_	8 play	obj
10	eh	eh	X	_	9 dat	goeswith
11	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	flat
12	eh	eh	X	_	9 dat	flat
13	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	flat
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 watch	det
15	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 watch	amod
16	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 watch	amod
17	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	flat
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 dat	discourse
19	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	flat
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 um	case
21	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tek up	infinitive	Buh					wid property	tree rules
2	play	infinitive	Buh not said here	dat		roun um			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 72