Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 65

Arter Buh Wolf done shet up Buh Goat an eh wife, eh git eh fiddle an eh biggin fuh play an sing: “Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.

Who acts: Arter, eh biggin, lightnin · What happens: do, play · To what, where: shet, sing, sen meat

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 (Arter, eh biggin, lightnin), 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	Arter	Arter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Arter	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Arter	flat
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 Goat	case
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Goat	compound
8	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wife	det
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	compound
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fiddle	punct
13	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 fiddle	discourse
14	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fiddle	compound
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fiddle	amod
16	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 biggin	det
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 biggin	amod
19	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fiddle	appos
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	21 play	discourse
21	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 biggin	acl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sing	det
23	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 play	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 God	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 God	punct
26	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 God	compound
27	goolly	goolly	ADV	_	28 God	advmod
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 biggin	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tunder	punct
30	tunder	tunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 God	conj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lightnin	det
32	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 God	appos
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 lightnin	acl
34	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 meat	compound
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obj
36	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 house	nummod
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 een	nmod:unmarked
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle	Arter	shet	up Buh Goat; git eh fiddle obl; a eh wife obj	tree rules
2	play	infinitive	a eh biggin not said here	a sing		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Theme
3	do in a quote	participle	a lightnin not said here	sen meat	een house obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Eventuality

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 65

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 65