Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 62

Buh Wolf tell dem yes; an eh tun Buh Goat an eh wife een de shedroom, an eh shet de do behine dem an latch um.

Who acts: Buh, eh tun, eh shet de · What happens: tell, shedroom, behine · To what, where: dem yes, dem · 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, eh tun, eh shet 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yes	compound
5	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shedroom	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tun	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tun	amod
9	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shedroom	nsubj
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tun	appos
11	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wife	det
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	compound
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shedroom	compound
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 wife	flat
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 wife	flat:foreign
17	shedroom	shedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 behine	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 de	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 de	amod
21	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 de	compound
22	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behine	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 behine	aux
24	behine	behine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 shedroom	conj
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behine	obj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
27	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behine	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Buh	dem yes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Recipient
2	shedroom		a eh tun			tree rules
3	behine	present · do-support	a eh shet de	dem	a latch um obj	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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 62