Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 112

Wen de Gal notus how smate Buh Rabbit bin, an how eh mek good eh big wud, eh gen um eh han, an, leetle while arter, dem bin git marry.

Who acts: bin git · What happens: marry · To what, where: um han

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 (bin git), 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	24 han	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	list
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 smate	advmod
6	smate	smate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bin	amod
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bin	compound
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	compound
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mek	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mek	det
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 eh	advmod
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mek	amod
14	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	conj
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mek	amod
16	eh	eh	INTJ	_	18 wud	discourse
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wud	amod
18	wud	wud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	list
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wen	punct
20	eh	eh	INTJ	_	24 han	discourse
21	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 han	compound
23	eh	eh	INTJ	_	24 han	discourse
24	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leetle	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 leetle	det
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leetle	punct
28	leetle	leetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 han	conj
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 arter	mark
30	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leetle	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 git	punct
32	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bin	compound
33	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 git	compound
34	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marry	nsubj
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 han	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 han	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	infinitive	bin git	um han Wen notus big wud and a eh mek and a leetle not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Patient

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 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 112