Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

Buh Tukrey Buzzud mek answer dat eh yent mek out wut; dat half de time eh cant fine nuttne fuh eat; dat eh so hongry eh mos ready fuh perish; but dat eh mek up eh mine ter keep on guine, an ter wait on de Lord.

Who acts: hongry eh, ready fuh · What happens: eat, mos, perish, dat, keep · To what, where: eh, mek, guine

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 (hongry eh, ready fuh), 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	6 dat	compound
2	Tukrey	Tukrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	Buzzud	Buzzud	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
4	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	compound
7	eh	eh	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct
8	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mek	amod
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eh	goeswith
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 eh	compound:prt
11	wut	wut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	flat
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 half	compound
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 eh	conj
15	de	de	ADP	_	18 cant	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cant	compound
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cant	amod
18	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	nmod
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cant	amod
20	nuttne	nuttne	X	_	19 fine	csubj
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 eat	discourse
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 nuttne	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 eh	punct
24	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eh	det
25	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cant	appos
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 mos	advmod
27	hongry	hongry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eh	amod
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mos	nsubj
29	mos	mos	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 eh	acl:relcl
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fuh	amod
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 perish	nsubj
32	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mos	ccomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 dat	cc
35	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	eh	eh	CCONJ	_	37 mek	cc
37	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 dat	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 mek	compound:prt
39	eh	eh	ADV	_	40 mine	advmod
40	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dat	obl
41	ter	ter	PART	_	42 keep	mark
42	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 dat	advcl
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 guine	case
44	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 keep	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wait	punct
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 wait	det
47	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wait	amod
48	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 guine	appos
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 Lord	case
50	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Lord	compound
51	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 wait	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mos	present	hongry eh	that eh not said here			tree rules
3	perish	present	ready fuh				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	dat	past		mek		mine obl; Buh answer dat compound; yent mek goeswith; wut flat; dat half conj; time eh cant nmod	tree rules
5	keep	infinitive			guine		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on guine=Location

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 25