Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 83

Buh Deer, him sorter skittish, an eh faid fuh trus ehself, an de big woice kinder skade um, but eh mek out fuh answer: “Duh me, Buh Deer.”

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	Buh	buh	INTJ	_	2 Deer	discourse
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 skittish	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Deer	parataxis
5	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skittish	obl:unmarked
6	skittish	skittish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skittish	appos
10	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trus	amod
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	12 trus	discourse
12	trus	trus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	appos
13	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trus	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woice	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woice	det
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woice	amod
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woice	amod
18	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	conj
19	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 woice	conj
20	skade	skade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kinder	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 me	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 me	cc
24	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mek	compound
25	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 me	nsubj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 mek	compound:prt
27	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 answer	amod
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mek	list
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 me	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 me	punct
31	Duh	duh	INTJ	_	32 me	discourse
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 skittish	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Buh	punct
34	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 me	conj
35	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Buh	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 skittish	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 skittish	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 83