Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 123

Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chile, eh say yes.

Who acts: Eh, Buh · What happens: seem, ef, do, say · To what, where: berry, wen, bactize · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, Buh), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	obj
4	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berry	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wen	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wen	det
7	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 berry	conj
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ef	nsubj
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ef	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ef	compound
12	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wen	acl:relcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
14	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ef	acl:relcl
15	bactize	bactize	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	obj
16	de	de	ADP	_	17 chile	case
17	chile	chile	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	20 say	discourse
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seem	conj
21	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	20 say	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	Eh	berry and a wen		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme berry=Attribute
2	ef		Buh	a wen not said here		tree rules
3	do	past	eh	bactize	de chile	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bactize=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	Eh not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 123