Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 20

Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh hab a way fuh debble Buh Chanticleer.

Who acts: Eh, Buh, hab · What happens: run, see, walk, debble · To what, where: time eh, towuds um · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, Buh, hab), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 run	nsubj
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	obj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 run	conj
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nsubj
8	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	duh	duh	INTJ	_	10 walk	discourse
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
11	towuds	towud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 um	compound
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 debble	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 debble	cc
15	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hab	det
16	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 debble	nsubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 debble	compound
19	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 debble	amod
20	debble	debble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	parataxis
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 debble	appos
22	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	Eh	time eh		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eh=Trajectory
2	see	infinitive	Eh not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	walk	infinitive	Buh	towuds um		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Trajectory
4	debble		eh hab		Buh appos	tree rules

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 6, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 20