Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 102

Buh Goat laugh at um, an eh answer: “Now you done speak you mine, lemme tell you, you nebber gwine git narruh chance fuh ketch me.

Who acts: Buh, lemme, you · What happens: laugh, speak, tell, git · To what, where: um, you · 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 (Buh, lemme, you), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	nsubj
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 um	case
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 answer	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 done	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
14	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speak	advcl
15	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obj
17	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
19	lemme	lemme	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 git	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 git	nsubj
24	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 git	compound
25	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 git	compound
26	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obl
27	narruh	narruh	INTJ	_	30 ketch	discourse
28	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ketch	compound
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ketch	amod
30	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 git	appos
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ketch	goeswith
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Buh			um and a eh answer		tree rules
2	speak speech: other in a quote	present		you			mine obl	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	lemme		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	git in a quote		you				chance fuh ketch me appos	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 12, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 102