Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 152

Wen Buh Pattridge an him chillun done eat dem belly full, Buh Pattridge gone back to de place way de cow bin kill.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: do, eat, go back, de · To what, where: him chillun, dem belly, Buh, place way

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), 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	15 gone	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chillun	det
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chillun	compound
6	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	appos
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chillun	acl
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	xcomp
9	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 belly	compound
10	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 belly	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Buh	punct
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gone	obl:unmarked
14	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	back	back	ADV	_	18 de	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 de	case
18	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 gone	advcl
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	compound
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	obj
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 way	conj
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	compound
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	compound
24	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 de	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	participle		a him chillun not said here	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		dem belly	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient
3	go back	participle	Wen	Buh	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	de	infinitive	Wen not said here	place way	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 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 152