Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 80

Den Buh Wolf schway: “De Gal done tell um say Buh Rabbit sisso, an eh bleebe de Gal.”

Who acts: De, Den schway · What happens: do, tell, say · To what, where: De, um, Rabbit sisso · 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 (De, Den schway), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 schway	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	schway	schway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
8	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 De	flat
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 De	acl
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 schway	parataxis
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Buh	buh	INTJ	_	12 say	discourse
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sisso	compound
15	sisso	sisso	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bleebe	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bleebe	det
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bleebe	amod
19	bleebe	bleebe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sisso	appos
20	de	de	ADP	_	21 Gal	case
21	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 bleebe	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 bleebe	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 bleebe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do in a quote	participle		De not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	De	um	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Den schway	Rabbit sisso	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sisso=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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 80