Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 27

Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh eat?”

Who acts: Eh, You · What happens: come, say, want, eat · To what, where: Buh ax um, one fat Rooster · 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, You), 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 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 um	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 um	det
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 um	compound
6	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	compound
8	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Rooster	nummod
15	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Rooster	compound
16	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obj
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 eat	discourse
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 want	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	Eh		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	present	Eh not said here	a Buh ax um	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present	You	one fat Rooster	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rooster=Theme
4	eat in a quote	infinitive			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 6, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 27