Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 45

De ting broke Buh Coon leg, an eh hot um berry bad, but eh faid fuh holler, case, ef eh did holler, eh know Buh Lion gwine run day an kill um.

Who acts: De ting, eh, Buh · What happens: break, berry, know, run · To what, where: Buh leg · 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 (De ting, eh, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ting	compound
2	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 leg	compound
5	Coon	Coon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 berry	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 berry	det
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 berry	nsubj
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 berry	amod
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 berry	compound
12	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	appos
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 berry	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 holler	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 holler	cc
16	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 holler	det
17	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 holler	amod
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 holler	amod
19	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 case	punct
21	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holler	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eh	punct
23	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	compound
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holler	appos
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eh	acl
26	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
28	eh	eh	INTJ	_	29 know	discourse
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 broke	parataxis
30	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 run	nsubj
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Buh	flat
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Buh	list
33	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 run	obl:unmarked
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 um	det
36	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 um	compound
37	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 day	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	De ting	Buh leg		eh faid fuh holler and case obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
2	berry		eh				tree rules
3	know	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	run	present	Buh gwine		day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 7, sentence 45

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 45