Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 41

Buh Coon an Buh Rabbit mek er plan fuh rob Buh Lion bank, an dem usen fuh tek ting outer um ebry now en den, an nobody kin fine out who duh de tief.

Who acts: Coon, er · What happens: rob, plan · To what, where: Buh

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coon, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buh	buh	INTJ	_	2 Coon	discourse
2	Coon	Coon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rob	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mek	det
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mek	compound
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Coon	nmod
7	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plan	nmod:poss
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mek	appos
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 rob	discourse
10	rob	rob	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rob	obj
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	flat
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dem	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dem	det
16	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	list
17	usen	usen	X	Foreign=Yes	11 Buh	dep
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 rob	discourse
19	tek	tek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ting	amod
20	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rob	obj
21	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ebry	amod
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ebry	compound
23	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ting	appos
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 en	advmod
25	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 den	amod
26	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ebry	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nobody	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 nobody	det
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 ebry	conj
30	kin	kin	ADV	_	31 fine	advmod
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nobody	amod
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 fine	compound:prt
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fine	parataxis
34	duh	duh	INTJ	_	36 tief	discourse
35	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	36 tief	compound
36	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 who	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rob	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	infinitive	Coon a Rabbit mek	Buh a dem				tek ting obj	tree rules
2	plan		er						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 7, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 41