Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 51

Wen Buh Wolf pay him wisit de same ebenin, de Gal tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin say bout um.

Who acts: Wen, Buh · What happens: pay, tell, say · To what, where: er, um, bout um · 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 (Wen, Buh), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pay	obj
6	wisit	wisit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ebenin	compound
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 wisit	flat:foreign
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ebenin	amod
9	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 de	punct
11	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ebenin	conj
12	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 de	appos
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pay	parataxis
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	19 say	discourse
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 say	nsubj
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
20	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Wen	er	wisit same ebenin and de obl	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	Buh	bout um		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic

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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 51