Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 54

Buh Rabbit bin spicion say de Gal guine tell Buh Wolf wuh him bin say bout um; an eh know, wen Buh Wolf yeddy, dat eh boun fur tackle um bout um.

Who acts: bin spicion, de Gal guine, bin, eh know · What happens: say, tell, tackle · To what, where: Buh Wolf, Wolf, 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 (bin spicion, de Gal guine, bin, eh know), 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	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bin	compound
3	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spicion	compound
4	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guine	amod
7	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 guine	compound
8	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wolf	compound
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 tell	discourse
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
14	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	parataxis
16	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 know	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 know	amod
21	know	know	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tackle	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wen	punct
23	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	conj
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Wolf	compound
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 yeddy	compound
26	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tackle	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dat	punct
28	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 yeddy	conj
29	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	31 fur	dep
30	boun	boun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fur	compound
31	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 yeddy	conj
32	tackle	tackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bout	compound
34	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tackle	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	bin spicion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	de Gal guine	Buh Wolf	Wolf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wolf=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	bin	bout um			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic
4	tackle	present	a eh know and wen	bout um		Wolf yeddy and dat and boun fur nsubj	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme

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 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 54