Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 166

Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh track, an fine out who eat eh butter, an dat eh would er lick um.

Who acts: Eh, ef eh, wid Wolf eh, dat eh · What happens: know, say, bin, see, eat, er · To what, where: gone, track, butter, um · 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 (Eh, ef eh, wid Wolf eh, dat eh), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
4	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bin	aux
7	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bin	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
10	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eh	amod
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 eh	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	er	er	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	parataxis
17	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 track	det
18	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fine	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 see	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 fine	compound:prt
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eat	nsubj
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	parataxis
25	eh	eh	ADV	_	26 butter	advmod
26	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 er	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eh	det
29	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	compound
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 er	aux
32	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 eat	conj
33	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 er	xcomp
34	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lick	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	Eh			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bin	past · do-support	ef eh	gone		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gone=Theme
4	see	would	wid Wolf eh	eh track		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus
5	eat	present		butter	who nsubj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient
6	er	would	a dat eh			tree rules
7	lick	infinitive	a dat eh not said here	um		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source

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 166

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 166