Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh Rabbit tretch out een er bed wuh eh bin mek outer pine straw onder one tree, fas tersleep.

Who acts: Buh, wood, bin · What happens: wood, come, tretch out, straw · To what, where: pon topper, een er bed, one tree

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, wood, bin), 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	9 wood	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 edge	amod
4	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	6 edge	amod
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 een	flat
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	nsubj
7	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	9 wood	nsubj
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 er	flat:foreign
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eh	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wood	conj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 topper	compound
16	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obj
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 topper	appos
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	flat
19	tretch	tretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 tretch	compound:prt
21	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 bed	nummod
22	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bed	compound
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tretch	obj
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	30 straw	discourse
25	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bin	det
26	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 straw	nsubj
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 straw	nsubj
28	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 straw	amod
29	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 straw	compound
30	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tretch	obl
31	onder	onder	ADV	_	33 tree	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 tree	nummod
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 straw	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tersleep	punct
35	fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tersleep	compound
36	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 straw	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wood		Buh		gone een edge nsubj; a day eh conj	tree rules
2	come	present	wood and a day eh	pon topper		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme
3	tretch out	infinitive	wood and a day eh not said here	een er bed		tree rules
4	straw		eh bin	one tree	mek nsubj; fas tersleep conj	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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 65