Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 75

Wen Buh Wolf come in, eh fine Buh Rabbit kibber up in eh bed, duh pant an duh moan berry pittiful.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: come in, pant · To what, where: fine Buh Rabbit kibber, duh moan berry

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), 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 come	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kibber	punct
7	eh	eh	INTJ	_	11 kibber	discourse
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kibber	amod
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 kibber	compound
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kibber	compound
11	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 kibber	compound
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	compound
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kibber	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pant	punct
17	duh	duh	INTJ	_	18 pant	discourse
18	pant	pant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 berry	det
20	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 berry	amod
21	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 berry	compound
22	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pant	obj
23	pittiful	pittiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pant	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present	Wen	fine Buh Rabbit kibber in eh bed					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pant	infinitive		a duh moan berry				pittiful property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 75