Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 88

Wen Buh Rabbit fine no chance fur um fuh dodge no mo, an dat Buh Wolf boun fuh mek um go, eh git Buh Wolf fuh help um outer de bed.

Who acts: dat boun, git Buh fuh, um · What happens: dodge, go, help, bed · To what, where: mo

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 (dat boun, git Buh fuh, um), 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 fine	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 fur	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fur	compound
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	nsubj
8	um	um	X	_	4 fine	parataxis
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 dodge	discourse
10	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 mo	det
12	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dodge	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boun	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dat	det
15	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boun	compound
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dat	appos
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	boun	boun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	21 um	discourse
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boun	appos
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fuh	punct
24	eh	eh	INTJ	_	28 fuh	discourse
25	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fuh	compound
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fuh	compound
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Buh	flat
28	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 help	nsubj
29	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
30	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	33 bed	nsubj
31	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bed	amod
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 bed	compound
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 help	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dodge	present		no mo	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mo=Location
2	go	infinitive	dat boun		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	present	git Buh fuh		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	bed		um		tree rules

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 88