Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 155

Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in de swamp berry bex case de man wuh eh bin befren shouldder gone back on eh prommus and mek bad bargain fuh kill um.

Who acts: mek bad bargain · What happens: go, go back, um · To what, where: eh, dist, eh befren shouldder, eh prommus, dem talk

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 (mek bad bargain), 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	2 Snake	compound
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ebry	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Snake	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Snake	nmod
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ebry	compound
6	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	nsubj
7	wud	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	aux
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	compound
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	appos
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 eh	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	obl
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	compound
17	in	in	ADP	_	22 case	case
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 case	nsubj
19	swamp	swamp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 case	amod
20	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bex	compound
21	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 case	compound
22	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 case	flat:foreign
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	compound
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	29 shouldder	discourse
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shouldder	amod
27	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 befren	compound
28	befren	befren	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shouldder	compound
29	shouldder	shouldder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	conj
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 shouldder	acl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 prommus	case
33	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 prommus	compound
34	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 um	cc
36	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 bargain	compound
37	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bargain	amod
38	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 um	nsubj
39	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 um	amod
40	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 um	compound
41	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shouldder	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	participle		a eh not said here	dist		house man compound	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	go back	participle		eh befren shouldder and fuh kill um not said here		eh prommus		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	um		mek bad bargain					tree rules

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 155

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 155