Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 85

Buh Deer answer: “Me want fuh come een fuh git me bittle wuh me bin pit way fuh me fuh eat der winter.”

Who acts: Deer · What happens: answer, want, come, bin, eat · To what, where: een fuh git, pit way · 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 (Deer), 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	_	3 answer	discourse
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answer	nsubj
3	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
6	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	conj
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 come	discourse
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 git	nummod
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 git	amod
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 git	nmod
14	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 come	xcomp
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	3 answer	discourse
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bin	nsubj
17	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	parataxis
18	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obj
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 bin	discourse
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bin	obj
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	23 eat	discourse
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	conj
24	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 winter	amod
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	Deer				tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	Deer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	come not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Deer not said here	een fuh git me		bittle property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme
4	bin in a quote	present	Deer	pit way			tree rules
5	eat in a quote	present	Deer not said here		winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 85