Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

Buh Rabbit, him mek ansur: “Buh Wolf, me cant see you now; me berry sick; me day in me bed; me too weak fuh open de do.”

Who acts: Rabbit, Buh, weak fuh · What happens: ansur, see, berry, do · To what, where: you, day bed

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 (Rabbit, Buh, weak fuh), 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	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 berry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ansur	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ansur	nsubj
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ansur	compound
6	ansur	ansur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	appos
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Wolf	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Wolf	punct
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Wolf	compound
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ansur	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	compound
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Wolf	acl:relcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 see	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 berry	punct
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 berry	nsubj
19	berry	berry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 berry	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 day	punct
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 day	compound
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bed	compound
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 day	nmod
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 berry	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 me	punct
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 berry	obl
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 weak	advmod
30	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fuh	amod
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	nsubj
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fuh	amod
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 fuh	conj
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 berry	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 berry	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 berry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ansur		Rabbit			Buh Wolf appos	tree rules
2	see in a quote	infinitive	Buh	you	now	cant compound	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	berry in a quote	present	Rabbit	day bed		me obl; sick property	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present	weak fuh				vn act-114-1 «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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 70