Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 83

One day, Buh Porpus, him bin berry lucky een eh fishin, an eh fetch fuh Buh Rabbit mo ner two quart er gannet mullet, and blow um on de bank way Buh Rabbit kin git um dout wet eh foot.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: bin, blow · To what, where: berry, um, bank way, One day

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), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
5	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bin	nsubj
8	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Buh	flat
9	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	obj
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fishin	amod
11	een	een	X	_	13 fishin	compound
12	eh	eh	X	_	13 fishin	compound
13	fishin	fishin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fetch	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fetch	amod
17	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fishin	appos
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 fetch	discourse
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fuh	vocative
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Buh	flat
21	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ner	compound
22	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Buh	appos
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 ner	flat
24	quart	quart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ner	appos
25	er	er	CCONJ	_	27 mullet	cc
26	gannet	gannet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mullet	compound
27	mullet	mullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 quart	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blow	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blow	cc
30	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bin	conj
31	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 way	case
33	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 way	nmod:poss
34	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 way	compound
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	obl
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 way	appos
37	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Buh	flat
38	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 um	amod
39	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 um	compound
40	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Buh	appos
41	dout	dout	ADP	_	44 foot	case
42	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 foot	amod
43	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 foot	amod
44	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	Buh	berry				lucky een eh fishin obl	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
2	blow	infinitive	Buh not said here	um		de's bank way		dout wet eh foot	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 83

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 83