Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 55

Buh Rabbit prommus fuh help, but wen dem call pon um fuh help tote de pole and de bresh, him mek scuse, say him wife berry sick and him bleege fuh tay home an nuss um.

Who acts: Rabbit prommus fuh, um fuh, togedder · What happens: help, tote, scuse, say · To what, where: togedder, pole · 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 (Rabbit prommus fuh, um fuh, togedder), 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	INTJ	_	5 help	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fuh	compound
3	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fuh	compound
4	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fuh	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fuh	cc
8	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dem	compound
9	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	compound
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pon	compound
11	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 um	compound
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fuh	compound
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	nsubj
14	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 help	conj
15	tote	tote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 tote	flat
17	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tote	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bresh	cc
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 bresh	compound
20	bresh	bresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pole	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
23	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 help	obj
24	scuse	scuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 scuse	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	obj
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 berry	compound
29	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
30	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tay	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 him	cc
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sick	conj
33	bleege	bleege	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tay	compound
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tay	amod
35	tay	tay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 berry	nmod
36	home	home	ADV	_	39 um	advmod
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 um	det
38	nuss	nuss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 um	amod
39	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tay	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	Rabbit prommus fuh	togedder	mek obj	tree rules
2	help	present	um fuh			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tote	infinitive	um fuh not said here	pole and de bresh		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme
4	scuse	infinitive	togedder not said here			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	togedder not said here	togedder	wife berry sick bleege fuh tay a nuss um obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme berry=Manner

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 55