Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 77

Buh Wolf him yent leh Buh Rabbit know say him shum, but eh biggin fuh tun eh chune, an eh play an eh sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.

Who acts: Wolf yent leh, biggin, rain · What happens: know, say, play, do · To what, where: EH, eh sing, sen meat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wolf yent leh, biggin, rain), 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	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leh	compound
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Wolf	nmod
4	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leh	amod
5	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leh	appos
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	obj
11	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 play	cc
14	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 biggin	det
15	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	nsubj
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chune	amod
17	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chune	compound
19	chune	chune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 biggin	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eh	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eh	det
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chune	appos
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sing	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sing	amod
26	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 God	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 God	punct
29	Tenk	Tenk	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 God	compound
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 know	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rain	punct
32	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 God	conj
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 rain	acl
34	sen	sen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 meat	amod
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obj
36	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 house	nummod
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 een	nmod:unmarked
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	Wolf yent leh		Tenk God and rain parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		EH	shum obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme shum=Manner
3	play	infinitive	eh biggin and fuh eh chune	a eh sing		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme
4	do in a quote	participle	rain not said here	sen meat	een house obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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 77

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 77