Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 87

Buh Wolf bague berry hard, an eh prommus say ef eh wife lem go him will hunt an fetch bittle right off.

Who acts: eh prommus, prommus · What happens: say, go, hunt · To what, where: ef, fetch bittle, Buh bague berry · 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 (eh prommus, prommus), 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	4 berry	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 berry	compound
4	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 berry	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prommus	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prommus	amod
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 berry	conj
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lem	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lem	compound
14	lem	lem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ef	conj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hunt	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hunt	aux
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	ccomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bittle	det
20	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bittle	compound
21	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obj
22	right	right	ADV	_	23 off	advmod
23	off	off	ADV	_	18 hunt	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 berry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a eh prommus	ef and eh wife lem		tree rules
2	go	infinitive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt	future	prommus	a fetch bittle	off property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=Theme

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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 87