Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 17

Ebber sence, Buh Mash-hen kin walk bout de mash an de ribber, an buil nes, an ketch fiddler an shrimp all round Buh Alligatur, an eh yent try fuh bodder um.

Who acts: Buh hen kin, de · What happens: walk, mash, try · To what, where: bout, de ribber, bodder um

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 hen kin, de), 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	Ebber	Ebber	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sence	compound
2	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	nmod:desc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Buh	punct
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kin	compound
5	Mash	Mash	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hen	punct
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kin	compound
8	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	nsubj
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obj
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 mash	nsubj
12	mash	mash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	parataxis
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ribber	det
14	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ribber	amod
15	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mash	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nes	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 nes	det
18	buil	buil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nes	compound
19	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ribber	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fiddler	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fiddler	det
22	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fiddler	compound
23	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ribber	conj
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shrimp	det
25	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fiddler	appos
26	all	all	ADV	_	28 Buh	advmod
27	round	round	ADP	_	28 Buh	case
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 shrimp	nmod
29	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Buh	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 yent	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 yent	det
32	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 yent	amod
33	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Buh	conj
34	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mash	conj
35	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	37 um	discourse
36	bodder	bodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 um	compound
37	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 try	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	walk	present	Buh hen kin	bout	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bout=Trajectory
2	mash	present	de	a de ribber and a buil nes and a ketch fiddler	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribber=Patient
3	try	infinitive	de not said here	bodder um	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 17