Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 3

Buh Fowl-Hawk, him fly ebry day dis way and dat way ober de lan, an eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: fly, eat · To what, where: ebry dis 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), 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	7 fly	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
7	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dis	compound
10	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	compound
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 way	cc
13	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	conj
15	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 way	appos
16	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ober	flat
17	lan	Lan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ober	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cant	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cant	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cant	amod
21	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ober	appos
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cant	amod
23	nuttne	nuttne	X	Foreign=Yes	15 ober	dep
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	25 eat	discourse
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 nuttne	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Buh	ebry dis way and that way					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 3