Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 50

Wid dat, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem leff, an Buh Fox, wuh bin de jedge, eat all de cheese.

What happens: eat · To what, where: de cheese, Wid dat

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: 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	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cat	punct
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cat	compound
5	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	appos
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rat	compound
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cat	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leff	punct
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leff	compound
11	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Fox	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Fox	det
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fox	compound
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jedge	punct
17	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	20 jedge	discourse
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jedge	compound
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 bin	flat:foreign
20	jedge	jedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dat	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 cheese	det
24	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cheese	amod
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive		all de cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient

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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 50