Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 69

Buh Wolf, him say: “Lemme come in, Buh Rabbit; me bleege fuh see you on tickler bidness.”

Who acts: Buh, Lemme · What happens: say, come in, see · To what, where: you, tickler bidness · 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, Lemme), 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	5 say	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
8	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	vocative
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	bleege	bleege	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 me	flat
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 see	discourse
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bidness	case
21	tickler	tickler	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bidness	compound
22	bidness	bidness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in in a quote	infinitive	Lemme			Buh Rabbit vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see in a quote	infinitive	Buh	you	tickler bidness		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 69