Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 111

Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: “Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse.

Who acts: Wen dem, RABBIT, Gentlemans · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: settin fuh, black horse · 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 (Wen dem, RABBIT, Gentlemans), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dem	compound
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fuh	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fuh	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fuh	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fuh	det
6	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fuh	compound
7	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 match	compound
9	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fuh	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Rabbit	punct
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rabbit	compound
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fuh	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fuh	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Gentlemans	punct
18	Gentlemans	Gentleman	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 had	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fader	nmod:poss
21	fader	fader	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fuh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wen dem	a settin fuh	de match nmod; Buh Rabbit obl	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	RABBIT			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	past	Gentlemans	a black horse	my fader nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 111