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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 139

Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um.

Who acts: Den, tell um, furgit bout um · What happens: rabbit up, say, mose, tell · To what, where: bin, eh murrer · 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 (Den, tell um, furgit bout um), 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

nsubjflatcompound:prtdetcompoundnsubjparataxisdiscoursecompoundcompoundcompoundcompoundcompoundccompcasecompoundcompoundnmodpunctdetconjccompobjamodcompoundnsubjparataxiscompoundobjdetamodcompoundobjflat:foreignapposamodcompoundapposdetcompoundnmod:unmarkedpunctrootDenPROPNBuhPROPNRabbitVERBupADPanDETtellNOUNumNOUNsayVERBehINTJhabNOUNgagementNOUNfurNOUNbactizeNOUNnurrurNOUNchileNOUNatADPdisNOUNberryNOUNhourNOUN,PUNCTanDETehNOUNmoseVERBbinNOUNfurgitADJboutNOUNumNOUNtellVERBehXmurrerNOUNanDETehADJfarruhNOUNhollerNOUNterXumXouterADJdeXwoodNOUNanDETmemberNOUNumNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing3 Rabbitnsubj
2BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing1 Denflat
3RabbitrabbitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4upupADP_3 Rabbitcompound:prt
5anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 umdet
6telltellNOUNNumber=Sing7 umcompound
7umumNOUNNumber=Sing8 saynsubj
8saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 Rabbitparataxis
9ehehINTJ_15 chilediscourse
10habhabNOUNNumber=Sing11 gagementcompound
11gagementgagementNOUNNumber=Sing12 furcompound
12furfurNOUNNumber=Sing13 bactizecompound
13bactizebactizeNOUNNumber=Sing15 chilecompound
14nurrurnurrurNOUNNumber=Sing15 chilecompound
15chilechileNOUNNumber=Sing8 sayccomp
16atatADP_19 hourcase
17disdisNOUNNumber=Sing19 hourcompound
18berryberryNOUNNumber=Sing19 hourcompound
19hourhourNOUNNumber=Sing15 chilenmod
20,,PUNCT_22 ehpunct
21anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 ehdet
22ehehNOUNNumber=Sing15 chileconj
23mosemoseVERBVerbForm=Inf8 sayccomp
24binbinNOUNNumber=Sing23 moseobj
25furgitfurgitADJDegree=Pos27 umamod
26boutboutNOUNNumber=Sing27 umcompound
27umumNOUNNumber=Sing28 tellnsubj
28telltellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 moseparataxis
29ehehX_30 murrercompound
30murrermurrerNOUNNumber=Sing28 tellobj
31anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 hollerdet
32ehehADJDegree=Pos34 holleramod
33farruhfarruhNOUNNumber=Sing34 hollercompound
34hollerhollerNOUNNumber=Sing28 tellobj
35terterXForeign=Yes36 umflat:foreign
36umumXForeign=Yes34 hollerappos
37outerouterADJDegree=Pos39 woodamod
38dedeXForeign=Yes39 woodcompound
39woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing36 umappos
40anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 umdet
41membermemberNOUNNumber=Sing42 umcompound
42umumNOUNNumber=Sing39 woodnmod:unmarked
43..PUNCT_3 Rabbitpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rabbit uppresentDenvn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertpresenta tell umbactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour and a eh ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3moseinfinitivebintree rules
4tell speech: assertpresentfurgit bout umeh murrera eh farruh holler objvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent murrer=Recipient holler=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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