Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 99

Buh Rabbit say: “Buh Wolf, dont go so fas: me so weak me cant hole on; you mus walk.”

Who acts: Buh, you · What happens: say, go, walk · To what, where: fas · 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 (Buh, you), 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	3 say	nsubj
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dont	punct
9	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Buh	dep
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fas	advmod
12	fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 me	punct
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 weak	advmod
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 go	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 weak	iobj
18	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hole	amod
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weak	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 hole	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 walk	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 walk	nsubj
23	mus	mu	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 you	nmod:unmarked
24	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 walk	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present	Buh	fas	me obl	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk in a quote	present	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 99