Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 147

Buh Owl, him sing so well an eh pick de banjo so clear, nobody kin listen ter um an keep eh foot still; but eh no wan leh nobody shum wen eh duh sing an play.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: sing, listen, eh · To what, where: eh de banjo, um, wen eh, play

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 (Buh), 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	5 sing	nsubj
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Owl	conj
5	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 banjo	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 banjo	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 banjo	amod
10	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 de	compound
11	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banjo	compound
12	banjo	banjo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 clear	advmod
14	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 banjo	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kin	punct
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 kin	compound
17	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banjo	conj
18	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sing	conj
19	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	18 listen	dep
20	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 listen	obj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 foot	det
22	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 foot	compound
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foot	amod
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listen	obl
25	still	still	ADV	_	24 foot	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 eh	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 eh	cc
28	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sing	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 leh	det
30	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 leh	amod
31	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eh	nsubj
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 shum	compound
33	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wen	compound
34	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eh	compound
35	eh	eh	X	_	28 eh	obj
36	duh	duh	INTJ	_	37 sing	discourse
37	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 eh	conj
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 play	det
39	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Buh	a eh de banjo and nobody kin		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	listen	infinitive	Buh not said here	um	a keep eh foot obl	tree rules
3	eh	past	Buh not said here	wen eh no wan leh		tree rules
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	Buh not said here	a play		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location play=Theme

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 147

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 147