Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 26

Buh Hawk mek answer: “Enty you bin tell me one day dat ef me kin ketch you in you bed you guine fine me?

Who acts: Enty · What happens: tell, fine · To what, where: Enty, Buh mek answer · 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 (Enty), 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	4 answer	compound
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answer	amod
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	Enty	Enty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	bin	bin	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answer	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ef	compound
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ef	compound
15	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ef	obj
17	kin	kin	ADV	Typo=Yes	25 fine	advmod
18	ketch	ketch	X	_	17 kin	goeswith
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 kin	goeswith
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bed	nsubj
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kin	nmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 kin	goeswith
24	guine	guine	X	_	17 kin	goeswith
25	fine	fine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 fine	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote		Enty		Enty			you nsubj; day dat ef me ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fine in a quote	infinitive			Enty			kin property	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 26