Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 27

Buh Fowl-hawk, him switch eh tail, an eh say him smarte nough fuh git him libbin; dat him dont lack fuh bittle; dat Lord er no Lord, him manage fuh fine all him want fuh eat.

Who acts: Buh, dat · What happens: switch, say, dat, er, manage, want · To what, where: tail, Buh, Lord, fine · 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 (Buh, dat), 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	7 switch	nsubj
2	Fowl	Fowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hawk	punct
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 switch	nsubj
7	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 switch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	conj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 switch	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	obj
15	smarte	smarte	X	Foreign=Yes	13 say	obj
16	nough	nough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 git	amod
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 git	amod
18	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smarte	appos
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 git	obj
20	libbin	libbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 git	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dat	punct
22	dat	dat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 switch	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dat	obj
24	dont	dont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bittle	amod
25	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fuh	compound
26	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bittle	compound
27	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dat	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 er	punct
29	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 er	nsubj
30	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dat	appos
31	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 switch	parataxis
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 Lord	det
33	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 er	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 manage	punct
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 manage	nsubj
36	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	31 er	conj
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	38 fine	discourse
38	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 manage	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 manage	obj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 all	nmod
41	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 manage	conj
42	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	43 eat	discourse
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 want	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 switch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	switch	present	Buh	eh tail and a eh		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Buh not said here	Buh		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme smarte=Manner
3	dat	infinitive	Buh not said here	Buh	dont fuh bittle obj	tree rules
4	er	past	dat	no Lord		tree rules
5	manage	present	Buh	fine		tree rules
6	want	infinitive	Buh not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	eat not said to happen	infinitive	Buh not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 27

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 27