Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 152

One ebenin Buh Owl bin a sing an play oncommon well fuh de bud at Buh Rooster house fuh dance.

Who acts: One ebenin · What happens: bin · To what, where: sing

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 (One ebenin), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ebenin	nummod
2	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	nsubj
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ebenin	appos
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sing	det
7	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 play	det
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj
10	oncommon	oncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 play	amod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bud	advmod
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	14 bud	discourse
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 bud	compound
14	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	20 dance	case
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dance	nsubj
17	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dance	compound
19	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dance	amod
20	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bud	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	One ebenin	a sing				de bud at house fuh dance Buh obl; a play obj	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 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 152