Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

Buh Rabbit hair rise, an eh want fuh git out, but eh faid fuh slip back trough de do way Buh Wolf bin er sed down.

Who acts: Rabbit hair rise, faid fuh slip · What happens: want out, do, bin, s down · To what, where: git, way

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 hair rise, faid 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	Buh	buh	INTJ	_	8 want	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rise	compound
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	compound
4	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eh	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eh	det
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	appos
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 git	discourse
10	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 want	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
14	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 slip	det
15	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slip	amod
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slip	amod
17	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	nsubj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 slip	advmod
19	trough	trough	ADP	_	20 de	case
20	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slip	obl
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bin	advcl
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl:unmarked
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	appos
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	flat
25	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 want	parataxis
26	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 sed	advmod
27	sed	s	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bin	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 sed	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want out	infinitive	Rabbit hair rise	git	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot git=Theme
2	do	present	eh faid fuh slip trough de	way	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bin	present			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	s down	participle			tree rules

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 80