Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh jump pon topper Buh Chanticleer, an mash um ter det, an eat um up.

What happens: tend, jump, eat up · To what, where: Wid dat, Buh, um

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: 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	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tend	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 befo	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 befo	det
5	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kin	compound
7	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kin	compound
8	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mek	nmod:desc
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 befo	appos
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 mek	compound:prt
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 tend	discourse
12	eh	eh	ADV	_	13 tend	advmod
13	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tend	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tend	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jump	punct
17	eh	eh	INTJ	_	18 jump	discourse
18	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tend	conj
19	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 topper	compound
20	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	nmod:desc
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 jump	obj
22	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 det	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 det	det
25	mash	mash	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ter	compound
27	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 det	compound
28	det	det	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eat	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 eat	det
31	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 jump	conj
32	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eat	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 eat	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tend	present	Wid dat and a befo	fuh obj	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme
2	jump	infinitive	Buh pon topper		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buh=Agent
3	eat up	present	um		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 38

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 38