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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

Buh Rabbit him tell Buh Lion, say him know de man wuh duh rob him bank, but eh yent want talk eh name, an eh vise Buh Lion fuh set steel trap fuh ketch de tief.

Who acts: you, de man, yent · What happens: rabbit, tell, say, know, rob, want · To what, where: Buh, talk eh name · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, de man, yent), 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

discourseobjxcompobjflatpunctconjobjxcompcompoundnsubjdiscoursediscourseccompobjobjpunctccdetnsubjparataxiscompoundamodobjpunctdetamodapposapposflatdiscourseamodcompoundobjdiscourseapposflat:foreignconjpunctrootBuhINTJRabbitVERBhimPRONtellVERBBuhPROPNLionPROPN,PUNCTsayVERBhimPRONknowVERBdeXmanNOUNwuhINTJduhINTJrobVERBhimPRONbankNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJehDETyentADJwantVERBtalkNOUNehADJnameNOUN,PUNCTanDETehADJviseNOUNBuhPROPNLionPROPNfuhINTJsetADJsteelNOUNtrapNOUNfuhINTJketchNOUNdeXtiefNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuhbuhINTJ_2 Rabbitdiscourse
2RabbitrabbitVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 Rabbitobj
4telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf2 Rabbitxcomp
5BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing4 tellobj
6LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing5 Buhflat
7,,PUNCT_8 saypunct
8saysayVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Rabbitconj
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sayobj
10knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf8 sayxcomp
11dedeXForeign=Yes12 mancompound
12manmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 robnsubj
13wuhwuhINTJ_12 mandiscourse
14duhduhINTJ_15 robdiscourse
15robrobVERBVerbForm=Inf10 knowccomp
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 robobj
17bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing15 robobj
18,,PUNCT_22 wantpunct
19butbutCCONJ_22 wantcc
20ehehDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 yentdet
21yentyentADJDegree=Pos22 wantnsubj
22wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 Rabbitparataxis
23talktalkNOUNNumber=Sing25 namecompound
24ehehADJDegree=Pos25 nameamod
25namenameNOUNNumber=Sing22 wantobj
26,,PUNCT_29 visepunct
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 visedet
28ehehADJDegree=Pos29 viseamod
29viseviseNOUNNumber=Sing25 nameappos
30BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing29 viseappos
31LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing30 Buhflat
32fuhfuhINTJ_35 trapdiscourse
33setsetADJDegree=Pos35 trapamod
34steelsteelNOUNNumber=Sing35 trapcompound
35traptrapNOUNNumber=Sing22 wantobj
36fuhfuhINTJ_37 ketchdiscourse
37ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing35 trapappos
38dedeXForeign=Yes37 ketchflat:foreign
39tieftiefNOUNNumber=Sing37 ketchconj
40..PUNCT_2 Rabbitpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rabbitimperativeyou not said hereBuhtree rules
2tell speech: assertinfinitiveyou not said hereBuhvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buh=Recipient
3say speech: assertinfinitiveyou not said hereBuhtree rules
4knowinfinitiveyou not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5robinfinitivede manBuhbank objtree rules
6wantpresenteh yenttalk eh nameset steel trap objvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme trap=Attribute

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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