Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 80

Ebber sence dat time wen Buh Wolf ketch Buh Rabbit duh tief water outer him spring, an eh bin tie um ter de spakleberry bush an lick um, Buh Rabbit hate Buh Wolf an mek plan fuh git eben wid um.

What happens: tie, bush · To what, where: eh bin, lick um, dat time wen

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: 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	Ebber	Ebber	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wen	nsubj
2	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wen	nsubj
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wen	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wen	compound
5	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wolf	compound
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ketch	compound
8	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	nmod:desc
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wen	appos
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	12 tief	discourse
12	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 outer	obl:unmarked
14	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spring	amod
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 outer	nsubj
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tie	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bin	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bin	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bin	amod
20	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tie	obl
21	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wen	conj
22	um	um	X	_	23 ter	compound
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tie	obj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 spakleberry	compound
25	spakleberry	spakleberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tie	obj
26	bush	bush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tie	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 um	det
28	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bush	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hate	punct
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Rabbit	compound
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 hate	compound
33	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wen	conj
34	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 hate	appos
35	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Buh	flat
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 plan	det
37	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 plan	compound
38	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hate	conj
39	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 eben	amod
40	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eben	compound
41	eben	eben	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 plan	appos
42	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 um	amod
43	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eben	nmod:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	present		a eh bin			spring	um ter obj; de spakleberry obj	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient spakleberry=Result
2	bush	infinitive		a lick 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 80