Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 106

Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooster say him kin eat longer ner him.

Who acts: Dem, Buh, kin · What happens: bin, bet, say, eat · To what, where: talk togerrur, dem, ner · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dem, Buh, 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	2 bin	nsubj
2	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 togerrur	det
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 togerrur	compound
5	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bin	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 togerrur	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Elephant	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Elephant	det
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Elephant	compound
11	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 togerrur	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bet	punct
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bet	nsubj
14	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bin	parataxis
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
16	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bet	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 ner	advmod
22	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ner	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bin	present	Dem	a talk togerrur one day	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent togerrur=Theme
2	bet	past	dem		vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	Buh	dem	tree rules
4	eat	present	kin	ner dem	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ner=Patient

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 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 106