Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 59

Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh plan eh fix fuh ketch de Groun-mole.

Who acts: Buh, gwine, Rabbit duh, wuh plan eh · What happens: say, see, do, fix · To what, where: dat, ehself, ketch · 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 (Buh, gwine, Rabbit duh, wuh plan 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 do	discourse
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 duh	compound
12	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fix	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eh	det
16	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eh	amod
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fix	nsubj
19	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 do	conj
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	21 ketch	discourse
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fix	obj
22	de	de	ADP	_	25 mole	case
23	Groun	Groun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mole	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Groun	punct
25	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fix	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh	dat		tree rules
2	see	present	gwine	ehself		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ehself=Stimulus
3	do	present	Rabbit duh			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fix	infinitive	a wuh plan eh	ketch	de Groun mole	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ketch=Patient

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 59