Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 73

So Buh Rabbit mek up eh mine fuh slip een de do pass Buh Wolf, an set een him house tel de rain done ober.

Who acts: mek fuh slip · What happens: pass, do · To what, where: Buh house tel, ober

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 (mek fuh slip), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 pass	advmod
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	compound
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mek	compound
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 slip	compound
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mek	compound:prt
6	eh	eh	ADV	_	7 mine	advmod
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mek	nmod
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slip	amod
9	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	nsubj
10	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 slip	flat
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 slip	flat:foreign
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pass	aux
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tel	compound
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Buh	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 een	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 een	det
18	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 een	amod
19	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Buh	list
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 een	obj
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tel	compound
22	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obj
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 rain	compound
24	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tel	appos
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pass	advcl
26	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 done	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · do-support	mek fuh slip	Buh house tel					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tel=Trajectory
2	do	participle	mek fuh slip not said here	ober					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 73