Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

Buh Fox tell um say him yent know nuttne bout de ting, an eh try fuh swade um no fuh go nigh Buh Lion.

Who acts: Buh, yent, fuh · What happens: tell, say, know, swade, go · To what, where: um, Buh, nuttne bout, Buh Lion · 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, yent, fuh), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bout	compound
10	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obj
11	de	de	ADP	_	12 ting	case
12	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 try	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 try	amod
16	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ting	conj
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 try	discourse
18	swade	swade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	conj
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swade	obj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 fuh	det
21	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swade	ccomp
23	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	25 Lion	advmod
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Lion	compound
25	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Buh	um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	Buh not said here	Buh		tree rules
3	know	present	yent	nuttne bout	de ting and a eh try	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bout=Stimulus
4	swade	infinitive	yent not said here	um		tree rules
5	go	infinitive	no fuh	Buh Lion		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 61