Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 77

Wen de rain stop, Buh Wolf heng up eh fiddle an gone git eh knife, an pit eh pot on de fire, en sharpen eh knife on de pot rim.

To what, where: Wen rain stop

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: 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	compound
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heng	punct
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wolf	compound
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heng	compound
8	heng	heng	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	appos
9	up	up	ADP	_	4 stop	compound:prt
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fiddle	amod
11	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 knife	det
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 knife	amod
14	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knife	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knife	compound
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fiddle	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pot	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pot	det
19	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eh	compound
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	compound
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knife	appos
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 fire	compound
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 en	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knife	conj
27	sharpen	sharpen	X	_	29 knife	compound
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 knife	amod
29	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 en	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 rim	case
31	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rim	amod
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rim	compound
33	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knife	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 77