Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 22

Buh Bear, him berry disappint; but wen eh see eh yent guine git nuttne mo, eh gree fuh tek um.

Who acts: Buh, wen eh, eh · What happens: berry, see, gree · To what, where: disappint, eh, tek um

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, wen eh, eh), 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	5 berry	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 berry	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 berry	nsubj
5	berry	berry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	disappint	disappint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berry	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
9	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	compound
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 berry	conj
12	eh	eh	X	_	11 see	obj
13	yent	yent	X	_	12 eh	goeswith
14	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mo	amod
15	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nuttne	compound
16	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mo	compound
17	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gree	punct
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gree	nsubj
20	gree	gree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	conj
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	20 gree	discourse
22	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gree	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 berry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	berry	present	Buh	disappint	vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disappint=Location
2	see	infinitive	wen eh	eh	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eh=Stimulus
3	gree	present	eh	tek um	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 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 22