Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 48

Wen Buh Rooster clean forgit Buh Hawk, an leh eh chillun play bout een de grass, befo eh know, down drap Buh Fowl-Hawk, an eh ketch up one er dem same Buh Rooster chillun.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: play, know, drap · To what, where: bout, 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 (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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forgit	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forgit	amod
5	forgit	forgit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	nmod:desc
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 play	nsubj
7	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chillun	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chillun	det
10	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	compound
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chillun	compound
12	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	appos
13	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obj
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 bout	flat
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 grass	compound
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bout	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	befo	befo	SCONJ	_	21 know	mark
20	eh	eh	INTJ	_	21 know	discourse
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 play	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drap	punct
23	down	down	ADV	_	24 drap	advmod
24	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 play	conj
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 drap	obj
26	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Buh	flat
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Hawk	punct
28	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Buh	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ketch	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ketch	det
31	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ketch	amod
32	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Buh	appos
33	up	up	ADP	_	36 dem	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 er	nummod
35	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dem	compound
36	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ketch	nmod
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 chillun	amod
38	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 chillun	compound
39	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chillun	compound
40	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dem	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	present	Buh Wen clean forgit	bout		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bout=Theme
2	know	infinitive	Buh Wen clean forgit not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	drap	infinitive	Buh Wen clean forgit not said here	Buh	down property	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 48

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 48