Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 148

Buh Rooster, him always blan hab a dark room fuh Buh Owl fuh set in wen eh duh play fuh de bud.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: hab, set, play · To what, where: dark room, wen, fuh bud, Rooster

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	INTJ	_	2 Rooster	discourse
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hab	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hab	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 blan	advmod
6	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hab	amod
7	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rooster	appos
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	nsubj
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	13 Owl	discourse
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Owl	compound
13	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 room	nmod
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	13 Owl	discourse
15	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 room	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 wen	case
17	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
18	eh	eh	X	_	7 hab	appos
19	duh	duh	INTJ	_	20 play	discourse
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eh	goeswith
21	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bud	compound
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 fuh	flat:foreign
23	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 play	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Rooster	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hab		Buh			always	tree rules
2	set	participle		a dark room Buh Owl not said here	wen		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wen=Destination
3	play	infinitive		fuh bud			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=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 148

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 148