Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some er dat butter.

Who acts: shame, some · What happens: berry, er · To what, where: Rabbit, dat butter

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, some), 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	INTJ	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 berry	obl
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=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lub	lub	X	_	8 tief	compound
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 tief	discourse
8	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berry	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plan	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plan	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plan	amod
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 plan	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	compound
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tief	appos
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 git	discourse
16	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	nmod
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 er	nsubj
18	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 berry	conj
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 butter	compound
20	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 berry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	berry	present	shame	Rabbit				lub tief obj	vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tief=Location
2	er	present	some	dat butter					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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/108/

🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 108