Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 197

Buh Sparruh biggin fur brag, an eh say: “Me tetter, him heap bigger den any me see.

Who acts: Buh fur brag, brag · What happens: say, tetter, heap, see · To what, where: bigger den · 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 fur brag, brag), 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 brag	compound
2	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fur	compound
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brag	compound
5	brag	brag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eh	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eh	det
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brag	conj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 tetter	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 tetter	punct
12	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tetter	nsubj
13	tetter	tetter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heap	punct
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heap	nsubj
16	heap	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 den	amod
18	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heap	obj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 me	reparandum
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 heap	obl
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heap	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	Buh fur brag and a eh			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tetter in a quote	present	Buh fur brag and a eh = brag			tree rules
3	heap in a quote	present	brag	bigger den	me obl	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent den=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	brag not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 197

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 197