Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

Buh Bear say: “Berry well: me guine come ter you house by de time de sun git up, an you will haffer rastle long me.”

Who acts: Buh, you · What happens: say, come up, rastle · To what, where: Berry, you, Buh · 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, you), 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 say	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Berry	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Berry	punct
6	Berry	Berry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 Berry	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 me	flat
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
12	ter	ter	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	obj
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	vocative
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 time	compound
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 git	compound
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 git	compound
20	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	11 come	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rastle	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rastle	det
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 rastle	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rastle	aux
26	haffer	haffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rastle	nsubj
27	rastle	rastle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 rastle	advmod
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 rastle	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh	Berry			tree rules
2	come up in a quote	present	Buh	you	time	house vocative; de sun git parataxis; ter property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
3	rastle in a quote	future	you	Buh		haffer nsubj; long property	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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 30