Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh wife fuh feed um well.

Who acts: Den, Buh Rabbit · What happens: mek up, feed · To what, where: 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: who acts (Den, Buh Rabbit), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mek	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	list
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bed	nummod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mek	nsubj
8	mek	mek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 mek	compound:prt
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	12 Rabbit	discourse
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rabbit	compound
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 feed	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wife	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wife	amod
16	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	compound
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Rabbit	parataxis
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 wife	discourse
20	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mek	conj
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feed	obj
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 feed	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mek up	infinitive	Den hab					one nice bed nsubj	tree rules
2	feed	present	Buh Rabbit a eh eh wife	um				well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient

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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 50