Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 82

Bimeby Buh Rabbit--wuh bin a yeddy um all de time--tek eh horn, an eh talk tru um fuh mek er woice big, an eh say: “Wudduh dat?”

Who acts: Bimeby, tek eh horn · What happens: bin, say · To what, where: yeddy um, dat · 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 (Bimeby, tek eh horn), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bin	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bimeby	flat
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Bimeby	punct
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	6 bin	discourse
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 um	det
8	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 um	compound
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 time	compound
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	obl:unmarked
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 horn	punct
14	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horn	compound
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horn	amod
16	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talk	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 talk	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 talk	amod
20	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horn	nmod
21	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	20 talk	conj
22	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	21 tru	flat:foreign
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 mek	discourse
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 woice	compound
25	er	er	X	_	26 woice	compound
26	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 talk	appos
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woice	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eh	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eh	det
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 woice	conj
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bin	parataxis
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct
34	Wudduh	wudduh	INTJ	_	35 dat	discourse
35	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	infinitive	Bimeby	a yeddy um			time		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	tek eh horn a eh talk	dat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic

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 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 82