Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 59

Buh Monkey tell eh wife eh wonder wuh dis ting duh wuh ebry body bin a talk bout, an wuh dem all duh call trouble.

Who acts: Buh, wife eh · What happens: tell, wonder, bin · To what, where: eh, dis ting, talk bout · 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, wife 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	compound
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wonder	nsubj
7	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	10 ting	discourse
9	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ting	compound
10	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wonder	obj
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	10 ting	discourse
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	15 bin	discourse
13	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bin	compound
15	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 ting	appos
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bout	det
17	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bout	compound
18	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bin	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dem	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dem	det
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	22 dem	discourse
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bout	appos
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 trouble	det
24	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trouble	amod
25	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trouble	compound
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dem	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Buh	eh		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	present	wife eh	dis ting		tree rules
3	bin	infinitive		a talk bout	ebry body compound	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 59