Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 19

Buh Bear, him tired lib wid eh farruh an eh fambly, an eh tell eh farruh eh guine way fuh mek eh own libbin, an eh want um fuh gem wuhebber eh hab wuh cummin ter um from de fambly property.

Who acts: fuh eh own libbin · What happens: want · To what, where: um, eh

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 (fuh eh own libbin), 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	11 eh	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buh	nmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lib	amod
6	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	appos
7	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lib	amod
8	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Buh	dep
9	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	11 eh	discourse
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eh	det
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	11 eh	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eh	amod
16	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	parataxis
18	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	17 eh	discourse
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	17 eh	discourse
20	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	conj
22	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 libbin	amod
23	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 eh	compound
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 libbin	compound
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 libbin	amod
26	libbin	libbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eh	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eh	det
29	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 libbin	appos
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 libbin	acl
31	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 want	obj
32	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 um	amod
33	gem	gem	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wuhebber	compound
34	wuhebber	wuhebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fuh	conj
35	eh	eh	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 wuhebber	flat
36	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wuhebber	conj
37	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 um	amod
38	cummin	cummin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ter	compound
39	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 um	compound
40	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wuhebber	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 de	case
42	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	40 um	conj
43	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	44 property	advmod
44	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 de	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	infinitive	fuh eh own libbin not said here	um					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot um=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 19

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 19