Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 162

Buh Rabbit tink say de pizen meat been a wuk in um, an eh hop off, an eh fetch water, an eh trow um in Buh Pattridge face.

Who acts: Buh, pizen meat · What happens: say off, be, trow · To what, where: de, wuk, um, Buh face · 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 (Buh, pizen meat), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tink	tink	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 say	obj
6	pizen	pizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meat	compound
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wuk	nsubj
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wuk	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wuk	det
10	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 um	case
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wuk	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hop	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hop	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hop	amod
16	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wuk	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	4 say	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 water	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 water	amod
21	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	compound
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eh	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 eh	det
25	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	conj
26	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
27	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trow	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 face	case
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 face	compound
30	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Buh	flat
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trow	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say off speech: assert	present	Buh	de		a eh fetch water and a eh obl	tree rules
2	is a	participle	pizen meat	a wuk and a eh hop	um	a eh hop conj	tree rules
3	trow	infinitive		um	Buh face		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 162

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 162