Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 51

Buh Bear fine out dat de bread wuh eh farruh bin gen um, an wuh eh hardly bin want fuh tote long um, done um a heap er good, an git um er nice house fuh lib een.

Who acts: Buh, bin · What happens: fine out, want, tote, do · To what, where: dat de bread, long 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, bin), 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 fine	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 fine	compound:prt
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	compound
6	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	compound
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	obl
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	7 bread	discourse
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	3 fine	discourse
10	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	13 um	discourse
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
12	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
16	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eh	amod
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	appos
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	20 want	advmod
19	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eh	advcl
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 tote	discourse
22	tote	tote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 um	amod
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tote	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 done	punct
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 um	acl
27	um	um	ADP	_	29 heap	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heap	det
29	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 done	obl
30	er	er	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heap	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 um	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 um	det
34	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	conj
36	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 nice	advmod
37	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 house	amod
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	appos
39	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 een	amod
40	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 een	compound
41	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 house	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fine out	past	Buh	dat de bread	bin gen um and a git um parataxis	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	bin		hardly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tote not said to happen	infinitive	bin not said here	long um		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
4	do	participle		long um not said here	um a heap	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 51

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 51