Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 105

Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mornin, so eh kin hunt eh bittle befo de jew dry.

Who acts: eh kin · What happens: hunt · To what, where: befo de jew, Dem

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eh kin), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 togerrur	amod
3	roam	roam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 togerrur	compound
4	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dem	list
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wake	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wake	det
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rooster	compound
8	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wake	compound
9	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wake	amod
10	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dem	appos
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Elephant	compound
12	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wake	appos
13	duh	duh	INTJ	_	14 mornin	discourse
14	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Elephant	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hunt	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 hunt	advmod
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kin	amod
18	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunt	nsubj
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dem	conj
20	eh	eh	ADV	_	21 bittle	advmod
21	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 befo	amod
22	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jew	compound
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 jew	compound
24	jew	jew	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunt	obj
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hunt	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	eh kin	befo de jew					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=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 4, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 105