Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 72

Dem drink tell dem drunk, an den Buh Fox slip way wid Buh Coon body ter eh wife house, an him an eh wife bury um een de gaden same night onbeknowinst ter ebry body.

Who acts: Dem drink, den, eh wife, um · What happens: tell, slip, bury, night · To what, where: dem drunk, way, Den · 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 (Dem drink, den, eh wife, um), 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	Dem	dem	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drink	amod
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drunk	compound
5	drunk	drunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slip	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 den	det
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slip	nsubj
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 den	appos
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slip	obj
13	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 body	amod
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 body	compound
15	Coon	Coon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Buh	flat
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slip	obl
17	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	11 slip	conj
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	compound
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ter	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bury	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 him	det
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bury	obl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wife	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wife	amod
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bury	nsubj
27	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
28	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	33 night	nsubj
29	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	28 um	flat:foreign
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 um	flat:foreign
31	gaden	gaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 night	amod
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 night	amod
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bury	obl
34	onbeknowinst	onbeknowinst	ADV	_	27 bury	advmod
35	ter	ter	ADP	_	37 body	case
36	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 body	amod
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bury	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Dem drink	dem drunk		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drunk=Recipient
2	slip	present	a den	way	wid Buh body obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	bury	present	a eh wife	Den	ter ebry body; onbeknowinst property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	night		um			tree rules

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 72

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 72