Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 66

Buh Tukrey Buzzud, wuh bin a grine salt way up in de element, scent um, an down eh come.

Who acts: Buh, eh · What happens: bin, come · To what, where: salt way, de element

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, eh), 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	6 bin	nsubj
2	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	6 bin	discourse
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
8	grine	grine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 salt	compound
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 way	compound
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obj
11	up	up	ADV	_	6 bin	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 element	case
13	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 element	amod
14	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 um	punct
16	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 element	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eh	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eh	det
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 an	compound:prt
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 element	appos
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 eh	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	infinitive	Buh	a salt way		de element			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme in element=Destination
2	come	present	a eh not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 66