Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 133

De mo Buh Wolf rare up an kick an pitch, de wus Buh Rabbit spur um.

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: 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	5 rare	nsubj
2	mo	MO	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rare	compound
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 kick	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kick	det
8	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rare	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pitch	det
10	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wus	punct
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 wus	compound
13	wus	wus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	conj
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wus	appos
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Buh	flat
16	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Buh	appos
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rare	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 133

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 133