Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 134

Wen eh fine eh cant trow Buh Rabbit, eh tek de big road an lean fuh de gate.

Who acts: Wen, fine eh cant · What happens: eh, trow · To what, where: Buh Rabbit

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, fine eh cant), 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 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cant	amod
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cant	amod
5	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trow	nsubj
6	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eh	ccomp
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tek	punct
10	eh	eh	INTJ	_	11 tek	discourse
11	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	parataxis
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 tek	flat:foreign
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 road	amod
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tek	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gate	det
16	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gate	amod
17	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	compound
18	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gate	compound
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 road	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen					tek and big road and a lean de gate parataxis	tree rules
2	trow	infinitive	fine eh cant	Buh Rabbit					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 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 134