Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 84

Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh fiddle an sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.

Who acts: Him bin, bin · What happens: say, get, keep, fiddle, do · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, play 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 (Him bin, bin), 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	Him	him	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bin	amod
2	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
3	tink	tink	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eh	det
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 eh	advmod
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	parataxis
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eh	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 eh	case
16	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
18	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 keep	xcomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sing	det
20	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fiddle	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 God	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 God	punct
23	Tenk	Tenk	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 God	compound
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rain	punct
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 God	conj
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	ccomp
28	sen	sen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 meat	amod
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	obj
30	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 house	nummod
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 een	nmod:unmarked
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Him bin			Tenk God and rain ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	bin	Buh Rabbit		safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus
3	keep	infinitive	Him bin not said here		play eh		tree rules
4	fiddle	infinitive	Him bin not said here	a sing			tree rules
5	do in a quote	participle		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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 84