Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 75

Him say de rain duh fall so hebby Buh Goat an him wife couldnt mek out wuh him duh sing.

Who acts: wouldnt, de rain, Buh wife couldnt · What happens: say, fall, mek out · To what, where: wouldnt · 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 (wouldnt, de rain, Buh wife couldnt), 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	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 rain	compound
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	nsubj
5	duh	duh	INTJ	_	6 fall	discourse
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	15 mek	advmod
8	hebby	hebby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	nmod:desc
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 couldnt	compound
10	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 him	det
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Buh	nmod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 couldnt	compound
14	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mek	nsubj
15	mek	mek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 mek	compound:prt
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	15 mek	discourse
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mek	obj
19	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sing	amod
20	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mek	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	wouldnt			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	infinitive	de rain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mek out	infinitive	Buh wife couldnt	wouldnt	duh sing obl	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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 75