Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 18

Buh Pattridge mek answer say him an eh fambly nebber bin nigh de Cow sence eh fus leff um.

Who acts: Buh answer, eh · What happens: say, cow · To what, where: anarruh, sence eh · 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 answer, 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answer	compound
2	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eh	det
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Cow	nsubj
9	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	11 bin	advmod
10	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bin	compound
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eh	appos
12	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	11 bin	advmod
13	de	de	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 Cow	aux
14	Cow	cow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
15	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	X	_	14 Cow	obj
17	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
18	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	flat
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh answer	anarruh					tree rules
2	cow		a eh	sence eh					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eh=Experiencer

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 18