Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 28

Buh Alligatur yeddy um berry well, but eh so bex say de Bud done fine out, an der talk eh secret, dat eh want fuh kill um sho.

Who acts: bex, Buh um berry, eh · What happens: say, do out, want, kill · To what, where: de, um sho · 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 (bex, Buh um berry, 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 berry	compound
2	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berry	compound
5	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	nsubj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 berry	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 eh	cc
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berry	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
11	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eh	acl:relcl
13	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
14	Bud	Bud	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 de	flat
15	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 done	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 done	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talk	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 talk	det
20	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 talk	amod
21	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	parataxis
22	eh	eh	ADP	_	23 secret	case
23	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talk	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
25	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 want	discourse
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 want	nsubj
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 talk	conj
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	29 kill	discourse
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	xcomp
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sho	compound
31	sho	sho	NOUN	_	29 kill	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	bex	de		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic
2	do out	past	Buh um berry but eh		a der talk eh secret parataxis; fine property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	eh			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kill not said to happen	infinitive	eh not said here	um sho		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sho=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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 28