Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 52

De ting mek Buh Wolf bex, an eh say Buh Rabbit lie, an eh guine fetch Buh Rabbit ter de Gal an mek um tek back dat big wud befo eh face.

Who acts: mek Wolf bex, Buh · What happens: say, lie · To what, where: eh guine fetch · 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 (mek Wolf bex, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ting	compound
2	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mek	nmod:desc
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bex	compound
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mek	flat
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bex	compound
6	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bex	appos
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lie	nsubj
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	flat
13	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fetch	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fetch	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fetch	amod
17	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	compound
18	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Rabbit	compound
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ter	compound
21	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	conj
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 ter	flat:foreign
23	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ter	appos
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tek	det
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tek	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tek	compound
27	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	29 dat	advmod
29	dat	dat	ADV	_	31 wud	advmod
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wud	amod
31	wud	wud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tek	amod
32	befo	befo	ADP	_	34 face	case
33	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 face	amod
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wud	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	mek Wolf bex						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	present	Buh	a eh guine fetch and Rabbit ter and a mek um tek					vn assuming_position-50 «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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 52