Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

Befo eh part compny wid Buh Porpus, eh tell um how Buh Wolf bin ketch um an tie um an lick um, how eh bex long Buh Wolf, an how eh want Buh Porpus fuh help um fuh punish Buh Wolf.

Who acts: Befo, eh, Buh fuh · What happens: eh, tell, want, help, um, punish · To what, where: part compny wid, um, Buh Wolf · 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 (Befo, eh, Buh 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	Befo	Befo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wid	compound
4	compny	compny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wid	amod
5	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wid	appos
7	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	10 tell	discourse
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eh	conj
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 um	advmod
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ketch	compound
16	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
19	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	appos
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 um	det
22	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Wolf	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 eh	advmod
26	eh	eh	ADV	_	30 Wolf	advmod
27	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 long	obl:unmarked
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Wolf	amod
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Wolf	compound
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 um	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 want	det
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 eh	advmod
34	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Wolf	conj
36	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 fuh	compound
37	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Buh	flat
38	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 help	nsubj
39	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 want	conj
40	um	um	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 help	xcomp
41	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	40 um	discourse
42	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 um	xcomp
43	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Wolf	compound
44	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 punish	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Befo	part compny wid		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Befo not said here	um	Buh ketch um obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
3	want	present	eh			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	help	present	Buh fuh			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	um	infinitive	Buh fuh not said here			tree rules
6	punish	infinitive	Buh fuh not said here	Buh Wolf		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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 85

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 85