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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin er say an er do, an dat Buh Rabbit gone der fiel dist arter brukwus.

Who acts: Wen, eh wife, Buh, er · What happens: retch, tell, say, do · To what, where: eh house, um, dat · 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 (Wen, eh wife, Buh, er), 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

nsubjmarkcompoundobjnummodnmod:descoblflatflatpunctdetamodnsubjacl:relclobjdiscoursensubjflatflatadvmodccompdetnsubjccomppunctdetobjapposflatamodamodcompoundcompoundcompoundlistpunctrootWenPROPNehPARTretchVERBehNOUNhouseNOUNehNUMquireNOUNboutPROPNBuhPROPNRabbitPROPN,PUNCTanDETehADJwifeNOUNtellVERBumNOUNwuhINTJBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNbinPROPNerADVsayVERBanDETerNOUNdoVERB,PUNCTanDETdatNOUNBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNgoneADJderADJfielNOUNdistNOUNarterNOUNbrukwusNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WenWenPROPNNumber=Sing3 retchnsubj
2ehehPART_3 retchmark
3retchretchVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ehehNOUNNumber=Sing5 housecompound
5househouseNOUNNumber=Sing3 retchobj
6ehehNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 boutnummod
7quirequireNOUNNumber=Sing8 boutnmod:desc
8boutBoutPROPNNumber=Sing3 retchobl
9BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing8 boutflat
10RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing8 boutflat
11,,PUNCT_15 tellpunct
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 wifedet
13ehehADJDegree=Pos14 wifeamod
14wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing15 tellnsubj
15telltellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 boutacl:relcl
16umumNOUNNumber=Sing15 tellobj
17wuhwuhINTJ_22 saydiscourse
18BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing22 saynsubj
19RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing18 Buhflat
20binBinPROPNNumber=Sing18 Buhflat
21ereADVDegree=Cmp22 sayadvmod
22saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf15 tellccomp
23anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 erdet
24ererNOUNNumber=Sing25 donsubj
25dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 sayccomp
26,,PUNCT_28 datpunct
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 datdet
28datdatNOUNNumber=Sing25 doobj
29BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing28 datappos
30RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing29 Buhflat
31gonegoneADJDegree=Pos36 brukwusamod
32derdADJDegree=Cmp36 brukwusamod
33fielfielNOUNNumber=Sing36 brukwuscompound
34distdistNOUNNumber=Sing35 artercompound
35arterarterNOUNNumber=Sing36 brukwuscompound
36brukwusbrukwusNOUNNumber=Sing29 Buhlist
37..PUNCT_3 retchpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1retchinfinitiveWeneh houseeh bout quire oblvn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2tell speech: assertpresenta eh wifeumvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic
3say speech: assertinfinitiveBuhvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4dopresenta era datvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality

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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