Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 143

Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile, an eh answer eh yiz.

Who acts: Wen, Buh um ef · What happens: eh, do · To what, where: ketch, bactize tarruh chile

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, Buh um ef), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ketch	flat:foreign
5	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ketch	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ef	punct
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ef	compound
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 um	compound
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ef	compound
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ketch	conj
12	eh	eh	ADV	_	13 done	advmod
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ef	acl
14	bactize	bactize	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chile	compound
15	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chile	compound
16	chile	chile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 yiz	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 yiz	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 yiz	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	compound
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yiz	compound
22	yiz	yiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ketch	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen	ketch and fiel and Buh um ef and a eh eh yiz					tree rules
2	do	participle	Buh um ef not said here	bactize tarruh chile					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chile=Eventuality

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 143

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 143