Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 140

Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tell um de chile gwine loss ef eh no git bactize, Buh Wolf lem go.

Who acts: wen · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: Buh jection gainst · 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 (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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gainst	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
4	jection	jection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gainst	compound
5	gainst	gainst	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gainst	appos
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	list
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
11	wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tell	nsubj
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wen	flat
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wen	flat
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gainst	conj
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 de	compound
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chile	compound
17	chile	chile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ef	compound
18	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loss	compound
19	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ef	compound
20	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	ccomp
21	eh	eh	INTJ	_	24 bactize	discourse
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 bactize	det
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bactize	compound
24	bactize	bactize	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ef	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lem	punct
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Wolf	compound
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lem	compound
28	lem	lem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bactize	conj
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gainst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	wen					chile loss ef and no git bactize and Wolf lem ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 140

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 140