Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 96

Buh Wolf, him yent spicion nuttne, an eh tan still an leh Buh Rabbit pit de saddle an bridle on um.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: nuttne, saddle · To what, where: bridle, um

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), 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	19 saddle	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nuttne	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nuttne	nsubj
5	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nuttne	amod
6	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nuttne	compound
7	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tan	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tan	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tan	amod
11	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nuttne	appos
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 leh	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 leh	det
14	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tan	conj
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pit	compound
16	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pit	compound
17	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leh	appos
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 pit	flat:foreign
19	saddle	saddle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bridle	det
21	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saddle	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 um	case
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saddle	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 saddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nuttne		Buh					a eh tan and a leh appos	tree rules
2	saddle	infinitive	Buh	a bridle		um			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bridle=Destination

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 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 96