Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 79

Buh Rabbit yeddy; an eh spicion say Buh Wolf smell um, an fine out say him bin een eh house.

Who acts: Rabbit yeddy, Buh Wolf, fine · What happens: say, smell, bin · To what, where: um, een eh house · 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 (Rabbit yeddy, Buh Wolf, fine), 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	_	3 yeddy	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yeddy	compound
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 spicion	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spicion	det
6	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spicion	amod
7	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yeddy	conj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Wolf	compound
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 smell	nsubj
11	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fine	det
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	nsubj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 fine	compound:prt
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	xcomp
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 house	nummod
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 house	amod
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bin	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Rabbit yeddy and a eh spicion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	present	Buh Wolf	um	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	a fine	um	tree rules
4	bin	infinitive	a fine not said here	een eh house	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 79