Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 121

Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an gone een him house an eat hebby outer de pan er butter.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: eh, slip, eat · To what, where: git, roun, gone een

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 (Wen), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
4	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 git	flat
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 wood	compound
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 git	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slip	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 slip	discourse
9	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eh	advcl
10	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	9 slip	obj
11	onbeknowinst	onbeknowinst	X	Foreign=Yes	10 roun	flat:foreign
12	ter	ter	ADP	_	14 Wolf	case
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wolf	compound
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 roun	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 een	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 een	det
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 een	amod
18	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 eat	obl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 een	nmod:unmarked
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 een	nmod:unmarked
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eat	det
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slip	conj
23	hebby	hebby	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
24	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eat	xcomp
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 outer	obl
26	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 er	compound
27	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 butter	compound
28	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 de	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen	git and de wood		tree rules
2	slip	infinitive	Wen not said here	roun ter Buh Wolf		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent roun=Patient
3	eat	present	Wen not said here	a gone een Wen house	hebby obj; outer property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hebby=Patient

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 5, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 121