Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 29

Befo dem part Buh Tiger tell Buh Bear way him house yiz, and gree fuh rastle long um de nex mornin.

Who acts: Befo, dem part, part, fuh · What happens: part, tell, yiz, gree, rastle · To what, where: long um · 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 (Befo, dem part, part, fuh), 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	Befo	Befo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nsubj
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	compound
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	appos
5	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 way	compound
8	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yiz	compound
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 yiz	nsubj
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yiz	compound
12	yiz	yiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gree	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gree	cc
15	gree	gree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rastle	nsubj
17	rastle	rastle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gree	ccomp
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rastle	obj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 um	conj
21	nex	nex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mornin	amod
22	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 de	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	part		Befo		Buh appos	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	dem part			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	yiz		part			tree rules
4	gree	infinitive	dem part not said here			tree rules
5	rastle	present	fuh	long 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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 29