Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 95

Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er de bag tight, an eh heng um on one tree lim, an eh gone home fuh git eh lash fuh lick Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: Eh graff, eh, eh heng um · What happens: tie up, go, lash, lick · To what, where: de, fuh git eh, Buh Rabbit

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 (Eh graff, eh, eh heng um), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 graff	compound
2	graff	graff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	nsubj
3	um	um	ADP	_	7 um	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 um	det
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 um	amod
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	compound
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 graff	nmod
8	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 um	flat
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bag	nummod
10	crocus	crocus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bag	compound
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 een	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eh	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eh	det
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 graff	conj
15	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 tie	compound:prt
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 tie	obl
18	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	19 er	flat:foreign
19	er	er	X	_	21 bag	compound
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 er	flat:foreign
21	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	obj
22	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tie	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lash	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 um	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 um	amod
26	heng	heng	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 um	compound
27	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lash	nsubj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 lim	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 lim	nummod
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lim	compound
31	lim	lim	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 um	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eh	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 eh	det
34	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lim	appos
35	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 eh	acl
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 gone	advmod
37	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 eh	amod
38	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eh	compound
39	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gone	obl
40	lash	lash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tie	parataxis
41	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	42 lick	discourse
42	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 lash	xcomp
43	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Rabbit	compound
44	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 lick	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tie up	infinitive	Eh graff um a eh pit um and a eh	de	er bag obj	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
2	go	participle	a eh not said here	fuh git eh	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lash	present	a eh heng um on one tree lim			tree rules
4	lick	infinitive	a eh heng um on one tree lim not said here	Buh Rabbit		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rabbit=Source

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 95

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 95