Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 46

Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh stroy um.

Who acts: Rabbit, fuh · What happens: see, know, stroy · To what, where: Rabbit, eh ebry body, 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 (Rabbit, fuh), 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	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 body	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 body	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
11	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ebry	compound
12	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 body	compound
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chance	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	13 body	acl:relcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fuh	advmod
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stroy	nsubj
18	stroy	stroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	ccomp
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroy	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	Rabbit	Rabbit	eh chance and a eh ebry body obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
2	know	present	Rabbit	a eh ebry body not said here		tree rules
3	stroy	present	fuh	um		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 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 46