Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 86

Buh Wolf wife lick eh husbun tel eh holler, an eh tell um eh shant stay een de house bedout eh fine um een meat.

Who acts: Wolf wife · What happens: lick, stay · To what, where: een de house

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 (Wolf wife), 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	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	compound
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lick	nsubj
4	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eh	eh	X	_	9 holler	compound
6	husbun	husbun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tel	compound
7	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eh	compound
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holler	compound
9	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lick	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shant	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shant	det
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shant	amod
13	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 um	compound
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eh	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shant	compound
16	shant	shant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holler	conj
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lick	conj
18	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 house	compound
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stay	obj
21	bedout	bedout	ADP	_	24 um	case
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	compound
23	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 um	amod
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod
25	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 um	flat
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	present	Wolf wife					eh eh holler and a eh eh shant ccomp	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	infinitive	Wolf wife not said here	een de house				bedout eh fine um and meat	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location

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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 86