Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 221

Enty, heap a time, you see Buh Mash-hen duh ketch fiddler on de ribber bank close by way Buh Alligatur duh feed, an Buh Alligatur yent lick at um wid eh tail, ner skade um?

Who acts: Enty, you · What happens: heap, see · To what, where: Buh

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 (Enty, you), 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	Enty	Enty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heap	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Enty	punct
3	heap	heap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heap	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heap	conj
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
10	Mash	Mash	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 hen	punct
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	appos
13	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fiddler	amod
14	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fiddler	compound
15	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hen	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 bank	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bank	amod
18	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bank	compound
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fiddler	nmod
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bank	amod
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 way	case
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 close	obl
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	appos
24	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	flat
25	duh	duh	INTJ	_	26 feed	discourse
26	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lick	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lick	det
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 lick	compound
30	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Buh	flat
31	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lick	amod
32	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	appos
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 um	case
34	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lick	nmod
35	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tail	amod
36	eh	eh	X	_	37 tail	compound
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lick	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 um	punct
39	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 skade	compound
40	skade	skade	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 um	compound
41	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tail	conj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 heap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heap	infinitive	Enty				time		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	you	Buh					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buh=Stimulus

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 221

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 221