Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 99

Haw Buck! me lub my life dist es much es you lub yourn, an me no want hab nuttne mo fuh do long you.”

Who acts: you, Haw Buck · What happens: lub, want · To what, where: yourn, nuttne mo fuh

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, Haw Buck), 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	Haw	Haw	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Buck	compound
2	Buck	Buck	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 want	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Buck	punct
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Buck	iobj
5	lub	lub	ADP	_	9 es	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 es	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dist	compound
8	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 es	compound
9	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Buck	nmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 es	amod
11	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 es	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 lub	nsubj
13	lub	lub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 es	acl:relcl
14	yourn	yourn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lub	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 me	det
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 me	det
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nuttne	compound
21	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fuh	compound
22	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fuh	compound
23	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 you	aux
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 you	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 want	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lub	present	you	yourn					tree rules
2	want	present	Haw Buck me lub my dist es and much es	nuttne mo fuh				me nsubj; you xcomp	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fuh=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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 99