Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 163

Wen Buh Pattridge sorter vive, Buh Rabbit tell um eh no want de meat, dat eh guine leff um.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: tell · To what, where: um · 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), 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	9 tell	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vive	compound
5	vive	vive	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	list
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Buh	punct
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	conj
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 tell	discourse
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 want	det
13	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	ccomp
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 meat	compound
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dat	punct
17	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meat	conj
18	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	17 dat	appos
19	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	amod
20	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Wen sorter vive and Buh	um				no want de meat and dat ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient

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 163

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 163