Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 11

Buh Rooster yeddy him tale, and den eh say: “Me tell you, Buh Hawk, wuh you better do.

Who acts: yeddy tale · What happens: say, tell, do · To what, where: you · 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 (yeddy tale), 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	_	5 tale	discourse
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 yeddy	compound
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 yeddy	obj
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eh	cc
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	appos
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Buh	punct
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tell	ccomp
18	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	22 better	discourse
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 better	nsubj
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 tell	conj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 better	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	yeddy tale			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	yeddy tale = tale	you	Buh ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	do in a quote	present	yeddy tale = tale not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 11