Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 110

Buh Wolf so painful, so bex, an so shame, eh keep on run, an eh nebber come back fur see de Gal no mo.

Who acts: eh nebber · What happens: keep, come back, see · To what, where: run, fur, de

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 nebber), 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	4 painful	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 painful	advmod
4	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bex	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bex	advmod
7	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 painful	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shame	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shame	det
10	so	so	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shame	amod
11	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bex	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
13	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 keep	discourse
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 painful	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 run	case
16	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nebber	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nebber	amod
20	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 painful	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
25	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 de	appos
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 mo	det
28	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 painful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive			run		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on run=Location
2	come back	present	a eh nebber	fur			tree rules
3	see	infinitive	a eh nebber not said here	de		no mo obj	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 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 110