Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell Buh Wolf wife dat eh bin er kill heap er dem ebry day, an dat eh gwine soon clear de fiel.

Who acts: Nobody kin, eh · What happens: see, tell · To what, where: Groun mole, Wolf wife · 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 (Nobody kin, eh), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 kin	compound
2	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 mole	det
5	Groun	Groun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mole	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Groun	punct
7	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	12 ketch	discourse
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ketch	compound
11	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ketch	amod
12	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Wolf	compound
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 wife	compound
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	dat	dat	X	_	16 tell	ccomp
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 heap	amod
22	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 er	compound
23	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	compound
24	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heap	compound
25	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dat	flat
26	er	er	X	_	20 dat	goeswith
27	dem	dem	X	_	26 er	goeswith
28	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 er	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gwine	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gwine	det
32	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gwine	amod
33	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gwine	compound
34	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dat	conj
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 clear	advmod
36	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gwine	conj
37	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 fiel	compound
38	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clear	nsubj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Nobody kin	any Groun mole				Rabbit der ketch obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mole=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present	eh		Wolf wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 56