Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 63

Buh Rabbit, him yeddy all wuh Buh Fox hab fuh say, an den eh say: “Me tell you wuh you do.

Who acts: Fox hab fuh, Rabbit, you · What happens: say, tell, do · To what, where: him yeddy, you · 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 (Fox hab fuh, Rabbit, you), 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 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yeddy	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yeddy	compound
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	appos
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fuh	det
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 Fox	discourse
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fox	compound
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fuh	compound
10	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fuh	compound
11	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 yeddy	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
20	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	25 do	discourse
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
25	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	all Fox hab fuh	him yeddy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yeddy=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Rabbit			a den eh nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Rabbit		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 63