Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

Buh Rabbit graff eh big horn, an eh answer back tru um wid all eh strenk: “Better man den ebber bin yuh befo.”

To what, where: graff big horn

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	_	6 horn	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 horn	nsubj
3	graff	graff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	compound
4	eh	eh	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horn	amod
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	amod
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 answer	advmod
12	tru	tru	X	_	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wid	compound
14	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answer	nmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 strenk	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 strenk	amod
17	strenk	strenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horn	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 den	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 den	punct
20	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 den	compound
22	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strenk	appos
23	ebber	ebb	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 bin	amod
24	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 den	conj
25	yuh	yuh	INTJ	_	26 befo	discourse
26	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 den	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 horn	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 horn	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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 98