Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

Buh Goat, him bex, an him mek answer: “How you hab de face fuh talk long me an ax me sich er question?

Who acts: you, ax · What happens: hab, sich · To what, where: face fuh talk, mek answer

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 (you, ax), 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	INTJ	_	2 Goat	discourse
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answer	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bex	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bex	compound
5	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Goat	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answer	nsubj
9	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hab	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 hab	punct
13	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 hab	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hab	nsubj
15	hab	hab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	parataxis
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 face	amod
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talk	compound
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 talk	amod
19	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hab	obj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 me	advmod
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hab	obl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ax	det
23	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sich	nsubj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sich	compound
25	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hab	parataxis
26	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 question	amod
27	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sich	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hab in a quote	present	you	face fuh talk				me obl	tree rules
2	sich in a quote		a ax					er question conj	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 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 90