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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 44

Buh Lion do es him say, an de nex night, wen Buh Coon, Buh Fox, an Buh Rabbit gone fuh rob de bank gen, Buh Coon, him walk topper de trap an eh ketch um by eh foot.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: do, say, walk, trap · To what, where: es, topper de, eh ketch um · 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 (Buh), 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

nsubjflatobjnsubjacl:relclpunctdetadvmodcompoundconjpunctconjapposflatpunctcompoundappospunctdetcompoundparataxisamoddiscoursecompoundflatcompoundconjpunctapposflatpunctnsubjparataxiscompoundobjconjdetamodcompoundobjcaseamodoblpunctrootBuhPROPNLionPROPNdoVERBesNOUNhimPRONsayVERB,PUNCTanDETdeXnexNOUNnightNOUN,PUNCTwenNOUNBuhPROPNCoonPROPN,PUNCTBuhPROPNFoxPROPN,PUNCTanDETBuhPROPNRabbitNOUNgoneADJfuhINTJrobPROPNdePROPNbankNOUNgenNOUN,PUNCTBuhPROPNCoonPROPN,PUNCThimPRONwalkVERBtopperNOUNdeNOUNtrapVERBanDETehADJketchNOUNumNOUNbyADPehADJfootNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing3 donsubj
2LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing1 Buhflat
3dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4eseNOUNNumber=Plur3 doobj
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 saynsubj
6saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin4 esacl:relcl
7,,PUNCT_11 nightpunct
8anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 nightdet
9dedeXForeign=Yes11 nightadvmod
10nexnexNOUNNumber=Sing11 nightcompound
11nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing4 esconj
12,,PUNCT_13 wenpunct
13wenwenNOUNNumber=Sing11 nightconj
14BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing13 wenappos
15CoonCoonPROPNNumber=Sing14 Buhflat
16,,PUNCT_18 Foxpunct
17BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing18 Foxcompound
18FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing14 Buhappos
19,,PUNCT_22 Rabbitpunct
20anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 Rabbitdet
21BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing22 Rabbitcompound
22RabbitrabbitNOUNNumber=Sing11 nightparataxis
23gonegoneADJDegree=Pos28 genamod
24fuhfuhINTJ_28 gendiscourse
25robRobPROPNNumber=Sing28 gencompound
26dedePROPNNumber=Sing25 robflat
27bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing28 gencompound
28gengenNOUNNumber=Sing22 Rabbitconj
29,,PUNCT_30 Buhpunct
30BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing28 genappos
31CoonCoonPROPNNumber=Sing30 Buhflat
32,,PUNCT_34 walkpunct
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 walknsubj
34walkwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 genparataxis
35toppertopperNOUNNumber=Sing36 decompound
36dedeNOUNNumber=Sing34 walkobj
37traptrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin34 walkconj
38anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art41 umdet
39ehehADJDegree=Pos41 umamod
40ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing41 umcompound
41umumNOUNNumber=Sing37 trapobj
42bybyADP_44 footcase
43ehehADJDegree=Pos44 footamod
44footfootNOUNNumber=Sing37 trapobl
45..PUNCT_3 dopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopresentBuhes and a nex night a Buh Rabbit and gone rob bank gen and wenvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Eventuality
2say speech: assertpresentBuhes and a nex night a Buh Rabbit and gone rob bank gen and wen not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent e=Topic
3walkpresentBuhtopper devn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme de=Trajectory
4trappresentBuh not said herea eh ketch umby eh footvn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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