Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 15

Buh Pattridge, him mek answer: “Me dis bin gwine ax you wuh you bin do wid all de meat.”

Who acts: you · What happens: bin · To what, where: gwine ax, Buh mek answer

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 (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	6 answer	compound
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buh	nmod
5	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 ax	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 ax	punct
9	Me	me	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dis	amod
10	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bin	compound
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gwine	compound
12	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ax	compound
13	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	appos
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bin	nsubj
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	17 bin	discourse
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bin	nsubj
17	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ax	acl:relcl
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wid	aux
19	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bin	xcomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 meat	det
21	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 meat	amod
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wid	orphan
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ax	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 ax	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin in a quote	present	you	gwine ax not said here				wid property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ax=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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 15