Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 10

Buh Mash-hen yeddy um, but eh fade fur trus eh head between Buh Alligatur jaw.

Who acts: eh, fur trus · What happens: fade, eh · To what, where: hen yeddy um, head

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh, fur trus), 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 um	nsubj
2	Mash	Mash	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	compound
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	compound
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fade	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fade	cc
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fade	nsubj
10	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 um	acl:relcl
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trus	compound
12	trus	trus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	nsubj
13	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fade	conj
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	18 jaw	case
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 jaw	compound
17	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 um	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	eh	hen yeddy um Buh not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent um=Patient
2	eh	present	fur trus	head				between Buh jaw	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 3, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 10