Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 154

Buh Rooster, him bin prommus Buh Owl dat eh yent guine tell who duh sing an play.

Who acts: dem, Buh, eh yent guine · What happens: bin, dat, tell, sing · To what, where: play · 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 (dem, Buh, eh yent guine), 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	_	5 bin	discourse
2	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bin	nsubj
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	nmod:desc
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dat	nsubj
8	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bin	ccomp
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guine	amod
11	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guine	amod
12	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dat	ccomp
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sing	nsubj
15	duh	duh	INTJ	_	16 sing	discourse
16	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	ccomp
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 play	det
18	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present	dem			tree rules
2	dat	past	Buh prommus			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	eh yent guine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sing speech: express	infinitive		a play	who nsubj	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 154

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 154