Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snake berry hard fuh try um, de snake gree fuh do so.

Who acts: Buh, um eh, wen man bague · What happens: tell, fai, try, gree, do · To what, where: fuh truss um, um, fuh · 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 (Buh, um eh, wen man bague), 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 tell	nsubj
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faid	nsubj
6	faid	fai	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
7	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 um	amod
8	truss	truss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 um	compound
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faid	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bague	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 wen	cc
12	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bague	compound
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 wen	flat:foreign
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bague	compound
15	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	nsubj
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 bague	flat:foreign
17	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 berry	compound
18	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bague	conj
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 berry	amod
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	21 try	discourse
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hard	xcomp
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 try	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 snake	punct
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 snake	compound
25	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	conj
26	gree	gree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	xcomp
27	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gree	obj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 do	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Buh		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fai	past	um eh	fuh truss um	tree rules
3	try	infinitive	wen man bague and snake berry not said here	um and de snake	tree rules
4	gree not said to happen	infinitive	wen man bague and snake berry not said here	fuh	tree rules
5	do	present	wen man bague and snake berry		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 131