Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 13

Buh Rabbit leh Buh Pattridge git er leely way ahead er um es dem gwine back ter de spot way de Cow bin kill, an wen eh come up eh say: “Hi!

Who acts: um es · What happens: come up, say · To what, where: leely way · 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 (um es), 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	INTJ	_	6 git	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leh	compound
3	leh	leh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pattridge	compound
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leh	flat
5	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 git	compound
6	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
7	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 leely	advmod
8	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	11 er	advmod
11	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 um	advmod
12	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 es	amod
13	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 come	nsubj
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gwine	compound
15	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 es	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	17 ter	advmod
17	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 es	nmod
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 ter	flat:foreign
19	spot	spot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ter	conj
21	de	de	ADP	_	24 kill	case
22	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 kill	compound
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	compound
24	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eh	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eh	det
27	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eh	compound
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ter	conj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	eh	eh	ADV	_	32 say	advmod
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Hi	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Hi	punct
35	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	9 way	discourse
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present	um es ter and spot way de Cow bin kill and a wen eh and dem gwine	leely way Pattridge git not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	um es ter and spot way de Cow bin kill and a wen eh and dem gwine not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 13

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 13