Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 88

But eh yent leh Buh Rabbit see dat eh spicion anyting, an eh tell um fuh go head an mek eh soup.

Who acts: yent leh · What happens: see, go · To what, where: dat, head

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 (yent leh), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	4 leh	discourse
3	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leh	amod
4	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 leh	appos
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 anyting	amod
10	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 anyting	compound
11	anyting	anything	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dat	appos
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 um	discourse
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 soup	det
21	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 soup	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soup	compound
23	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	yent leh	dat and eh spicion anyting					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dat=Stimulus
2	go	infinitive	yent leh not said here	head				a mek eh soup obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme

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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 88