Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 17

Buh Fowl-Hawk wake up, eh switch eh tail, eh pitch off de tree, an eh mek fur de spot way de Sun blan sleep.

Who acts: Buh, de tree · What happens: wake up, switch, pitch off, spot · To what, where: eh tail, 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 (Buh, de tree), 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	5 wake	nsubj
2	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Hawk	punct
4	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 switch	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 switch	discourse
9	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	parataxis
10	eh	eh	X	_	11 tail	compound
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 switch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pitch	punct
13	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 pitch	discourse
14	pitch	pitch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	parataxis
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 pitch	compound:prt
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spot	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fur	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fur	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fur	amod
21	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fur	compound
22	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	nmod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 fur	flat:foreign
24	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pitch	parataxis
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spot	obj
26	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 way	appos
27	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 de	flat
28	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sleep	amod
29	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 de	list
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wake up	present	Buh		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	switch	infinitive		eh tail	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	pitch off	infinitive			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spot	present	de tree a eh mek fur	way	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 17