Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 133

Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh holler out: “You right; me bin mose furgit; me comin right off.”

Who acts: you, Rabbit, me bin · What happens: bless, drap out, mose · To what, where: you, hoe, furgit

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 (you, Rabbit, me 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	Bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Bless	obj
3	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bless	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bless	punct
5	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Bless	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bless	obl:unmarked
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 Rabbit	mark
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bless	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drap	punct
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drap	nsubj
13	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bless	conj
14	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hoe	det
15	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drap	obj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 holler	det
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holler	compound
18	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drap	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	13 drap	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 You	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 You	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Bless	conj
23	right	right	ADV	_	1 Bless	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 mose	punct
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bin	compound
26	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mose	nsubj
27	mose	mose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bless	conj
28	furgit	furgit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mose	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 comin	punct
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 comin	compound
31	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bless	obl
32	right	right	ADV	_	33 off	advmod
33	off	off	ADV	_	1 Bless	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bless	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bless	imperative	you not said here	you	a little obl:unmarked; me comin obl; soul obj; een obj; Buh Rabbit advcl; You conj; off, right property	tree rules
2	drap out	present	Rabbit	eh hoe	a eh holler obj	tree rules
3	mose in a quote	present	me bin	furgit		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.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 133

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 133