Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 134

Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you sense; who you duh holler teh?

Who acts: Buh, you, Rabbit · What happens: stonish, say, be, sense, duh · To what, where: Buh, loss, holler teh · 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 (Buh, you, Rabbit), 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	9 say	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stonish	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stonish	nsubj
5	stonish	stonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 Buh	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eh	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eh	det
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Buh	buh	INTJ	_	13 Rabbit	discourse
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loss	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 loss	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 loss	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 loss	cop
18	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sense	nsubj
20	sense	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 loss	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 duh	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 duh	nsubj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 duh	nsubj
24	duh	duh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Rabbit	parataxis
25	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 teh	compound
26	teh	teh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 duh	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stonish	present	Buh	Buh not said here		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	infinitive	Buh		a eh nsubj; Rabbit and loss ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	must	you	loss		tree rules
4	sense in a quote	present	you	loss not said here		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
5	duh in a quote	present	Rabbit and loss	holler teh	you nsubj	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 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 134