Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

De ole ooman--wuh bin Buh Wolf wife--mek answer: “Enty me bin tell you say Buh Goat an eh wife gwine yeddy?

Who acts: De ole ooman, you · What happens: bin, tell, say · To what, where: Buh · 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 (De ole ooman, you), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ooman	compound
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ooman	amod
3	ooman	ooman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	nsubj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 wife	discourse
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wolf	compound
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bin	flat
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wife	compound
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ooman	appos
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
11	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answer	amod
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Enty	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Enty	punct
15	Enty	enty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ooman	list
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bin	nsubj
17	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Enty	acl:relcl
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
22	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 yeddy	det
24	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 yeddy	amod
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gwine	compound
26	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yeddy	compound
27	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin in a quote	present	De ole ooman = ooman			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	De ole ooman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you	Buh	a eh gwine yeddy obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent buh=Theme yeddy=Manner

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 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 82