Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 109

De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.

Who acts: De, stan sanfly de · What happens: tell, longe, shill · To what, where: Buh Rabbit, Buh, one kin, git · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De, stan sanfly de), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Rabbit	det
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
9	de	de	ADP	_	12 kin	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 kin	nummod
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	12 kin	discourse
12	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
13	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 de	compound
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 stan	flat:foreign
15	sanfly	sanfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 de	compound
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 longes	nsubj
17	longes	longe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kin	acl:relcl
18	bedout	bedout	ADP	_	21 way	case
19	bresh	bresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	compound
20	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 longes	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shill	punct
23	shill	shill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shill	obj
25	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gal	amod
26	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shill	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	De	a Buh Rabbit	Buh	de one kin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent buh=Recipient rabbit=Topic
2	longe	present	stan sanfly de	one kin not said here		bedout bresh um way	tree rules
3	shill	infinitive	De not said here	git		de gal obj	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 2, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 109