Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

One mornin Buh Rabbit bin a mek fun er Buh Wolf ter de Gal, an eh tell um say Buh Wolf yent duh nuttne mo den eh farruh ridin horse.

Who acts: One mornin, eh tell um · What happens: bin, say · To what, where: fun er, Buh · 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 (One mornin, eh tell um), 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 mornin	nummod
2	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	nsubj
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mornin	appos
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	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	8 fun	det
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fun	compound
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	compound
9	er	er	X	_	5 bin	obj
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wolf	compound
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ter	compound
12	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	goeswith
13	de	de	ADP	_	14 Gal	case
14	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 er	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 um	det
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
18	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bin	conj
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Buh	list
24	duh	duh	INTJ	_	28 eh	discourse
25	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 den	compound
26	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 den	compound
27	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eh	compound
28	eh	eh	X	_	20 say	obj
29	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	31 horse	discourse
30	ridin	ridin	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 horse	compound
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eh	flat
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	One mornin	fun er Wolf ter				de Gal	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent er=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a eh tell um	Buh					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent buh=Theme eh=Manner

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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 50