Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 109

Buh Rabbit tun um dest by de piazza, an eh light off eh back, an eh run up ter de Gal, an eh say: “Wuh you tink er me farruh ridin horse?”

Who acts: Rabbit tun um, you · What happens: run up, say, tink · To what, where: eh, Rabbit tun um · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit tun um, you), 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	INTJ	_	4 um	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
3	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	nsubj
5	dest	d	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 um	amod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 piazza	case
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 piazza	amod
8	piazza	piazza	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dest	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 light	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 back	compound:prt
14	eh	eh	ADV	_	15 back	advmod
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 light	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eh	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eh	det
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	conj
19	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 eh	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 run	compound:prt
21	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 run	compound
22	de	de	ADP	_	23 Gal	case
23	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 run	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eh	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 eh	det
26	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	conj
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 tink	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 tink	punct
30	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	32 tink	discourse
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tink	nsubj
32	tink	tink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	ccomp
33	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 tink	advmod
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tink	obj
35	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	37 horse	discourse
36	ridin	ridin	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 horse	compound
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tink	parataxis
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run up	participle		a eh not said here	ter compound; Gal obl:agent	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	infinitive	Rabbit tun um and a eh light and a eh and a eh			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tink in a quote	present	you	Rabbit tun um and a eh light and a eh and a eh = um	ridin horse parataxis	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 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 109