Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 12

But Buh Alligatur, him schway to Buh Mash-hen dat eh yent guine trubble um, an dat ef eh would bleege um an pick de ting out, eh would be fren ter um an eh fambly all dem life, an mek all dem tarruh Alligatur fren too.

Who acts: dat ef eh · What happens: bleege out, be · To what, where: um, dem Alligatur fren

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 (dat ef 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 schway	cc
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alligatur	compound
3	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 schway	compound
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 him	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Alligatur	conj
6	schway	schway	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fren	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Buh	case
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 schway	nmod
9	Mash	Mash	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hen	punct
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	appos
12	dat	dat	X	ExtPos=PROPN	11 hen	appos
13	eh	eh	X	_	12 dat	goeswith
14	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 um	amod
15	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 um	amod
16	trubble	trubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bleege	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eh	det
20	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eh	amod
21	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bleege	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bleege	aux
24	bleege	bleege	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Buh	conj
25	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bleege	obj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ting	det
27	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 de	compound
28	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ting	compound
29	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bleege	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	24 bleege	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eh	punct
32	eh	eh	INTJ	_	35 fren	discourse
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fren	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 fren	cop
35	fren	fren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bleege	parataxis
36	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	35 fren	dep
37	um	um	ADP	_	39 eh	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 eh	det
39	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fren	obl
40	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	43 life	advmod
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 life	det
42	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 life	compound
43	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eh	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 mek	punct
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 mek	det
46	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	conj
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 dem	det
48	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 fren	compound
49	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	_	48 dem	discourse
50	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 fren	compound
51	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
52	too	too	ADV	_	51 fren	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 fren	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleege out	would	a dat ef eh	um				a de ting obj	tree rules
2	is	would						um a eh all dem life; fren property	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 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 12