Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 108

Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an cant eat no mo.

Who acts: gedder leaf, cant · What happens: eat · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gedder leaf, cant), 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	INTJ	_	2 Elephant	discourse
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Elephant	conj
5	gedder	gedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 leaf	amod
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	nsubj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eat	det
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eat	det
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	conj
14	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	nsubj
15	eh	eh	ADV	_	16 full	advmod
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eat	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cant	det
18	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 full	acl:relcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 mo	det
21	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Elephant Elephant's gedder leaf		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	Elephant Elephant's gedder leaf not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	a cant	no mo	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=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 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 108