Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 212

Buh Sparruh rare isself back, an eh mek answer: “You go tell Buh Crow an de tarruh gentlemans me tetter so big me cant tote um.”

Who acts: You, Buh · What happens: go, tell, tetter · To what, where: Buh Crow · 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 (You, Buh), 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	23 tetter	nsubj
2	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Buh	conj
4	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 rare	nsubj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 rare	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
9	mek	mek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answer	compound
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Buh	conj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	xcomp
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Crow	compound
17	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gentlemans	det
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 gentlemans	compound
20	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gentlemans	compound
21	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Crow	nmod
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gentlemans	obj
23	tetter	tetter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 big	advmod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tetter	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 big	nsubj
27	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
28	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 big	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 tetter	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 tetter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	You		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	You not said here	Buh Crow a de tarruh gentlemans me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crow=Recipient
3	tetter in a quote	present	Buh and a eh mek answer		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 212

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 212