Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

Wen Buh Mash-hen see Buh Alligatur duh bague so harde, an wen eh fine out eh bin der tell de trute, eh tek pity on um, an eh pit eh head in eh mouf an eh pull out de crab-claw, wuh fastne in eh teet, wid eh bill.

Who acts: Wen, harde · What happens: see, tell, pull out · To what, where: hen, de trute, de crab claw · 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 (Wen, harde), 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	6 see	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Mash	Mash	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hen	punct
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	advcl
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
8	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	duh	duh	INTJ	_	10 bague	discourse
10	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	appos
11	so	so	ADV	_	22 tell	advmod
12	harde	harde	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wen	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wen	det
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 harde	conj
16	eh	eh	ADV	_	17 fine	advmod
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bin	amod
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 fine	compound:prt
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bin	amod
20	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wen	appos
21	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 bin	amod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 trute	compound
24	trute	trute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pity	punct
26	eh	eh	INTJ	_	28 pity	discourse
27	tek	tek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pity	amod
28	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 um	case
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pity	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 head	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 head	det
33	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 head	amod
34	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eh	compound
35	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 head	compound
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pity	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 mouf	case
38	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mouf	compound
39	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 head	nmod
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 eh	det
41	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mouf	nmod:unmarked
42	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 pull	compound:prt
44	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 claw	amod
45	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 claw	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 crab	punct
47	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pull	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fastne	punct
49	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	50 fastne	discourse
50	fastne	fastne	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	parataxis
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 teet	case
52	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 teet	compound
53	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fastne	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 bill	punct
55	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 bill	amod
56	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 bill	compound
57	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fastne	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	Wen	hen	Buh obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buh=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	harde and a wen	de trute	tek pity on um and a eh eh head in eh mouf a eh obl; fastne in eh teet and wid eh bill parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trute=Recipient
3	pull out	infinitive	harde and a wen not said here	de crab claw		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 13

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 13