Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 11

Soon es Buh Pattridge gone duh tote eh meat home, Buh Rabbit tun een an tote all de res er de Cow ter him house, an pit um een eh room, an lock de do.

Who acts: Soon es, lock de · What happens: tun, do · To what, where: een

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 (Soon es, lock de), 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	Soon	soon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 es	amod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tun	nsubj
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 es	appos
4	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meat	amod
6	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meat	amod
7	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eh	compound
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	compound
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	appos
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 meat	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	conj
14	tun	tun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tun	obj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tote	det
17	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tun	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 res	det
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 res	amod
20	res	re	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 er	obl:unmarked
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 house	advmod
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 er	conj
23	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 house	compound
24	ter	ter	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Cow	nmod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tun	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 um	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 um	det
29	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	compound
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod
31	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 um	list
32	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 room	amod
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 een	nmod:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 de	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 de	det
36	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 de	compound
37	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	conj
38	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 de	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tun	present	Soon es	een				a tote obj; Cow house a pit um and a lock de parataxis	tree rules
2	do	present	a lock de not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 11