Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

Wen Buh Wolf fine eh couldnt fool Buh Goat, eh change eh chune an eh say: “Go long, Boy.

Who acts: Wen, eh · What happens: change, say, go · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, eh), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 change	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fool	amod
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fool	compound
6	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fool	compound
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	appos
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fool	appos
9	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wen	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 change	discourse
12	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	17 say	nsubj
14	chune	chune	X	Foreign=Yes	13 eh	flat:foreign
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 change	ccomp
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Go	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Go	punct
20	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 Go	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Boy	punct
23	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Go	vocative
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	change	infinitive	Wen		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	eh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive		Boy vocative; long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 12, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 100