Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 48

Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh clear de fiel er Groun-mole, an dat him wunt charge Buh Wolf nuttne but him board an lodgment wile him duh ketch an kill de Groun-mole.

Who acts: ting, hab plan · What happens: plan, wunt, wile · To what, where: charge Wolf nuttne, ting, Buh gone ter

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 (ting, hab plan), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ter	compound
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ter	amod
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ter	appos
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 um	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 um	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 um	amod
10	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ter	conj
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	39 wile	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plan	punct
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plan	nsubj
15	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plan	compound
16	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wile	nsubj
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 clear	discourse
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fiel	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 fiel	compound
20	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	compound
21	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	16 plan	appos
22	Groun	Groun	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 mole	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Groun	punct
24	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	vocative
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dat	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dat	det
27	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wunt	nsubj
29	wunt	wunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	27 dat	acl:relcl
30	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nuttne	compound
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Wolf	compound
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 nuttne	compound
33	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wunt	obj
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 him	cc
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 er	conj
36	board	board	ADP	_	38 lodgment	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lodgment	det
38	lodgment	lodgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	nmod
39	wile	wile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 um	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 wile	obj
41	duh	duh	INTJ	_	42 ketch	discourse
42	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wile	obj
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 kill	det
44	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ketch	appos
45	de	de	PUNCT	_	48 mole	punct
46	Groun	Groun	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 mole	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 Groun	punct
48	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 kill	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plan		ting			tree rules
2	wunt	present	ting	charge Wolf nuttne		tree rules
3	wile	infinitive	hab plan	ting	ketch obj	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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 48