Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 87

Wen Buh Wolf tek eh holt fuh pull Buh Porpus outer de water, den Buh Porpus wus teh mek eh flut an juk Buh Wolf een de ribber an drown um.

Who acts: Wen, Wolf de ribber · What happens: pull, drown · To what, where: Buh, um

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 (Wen, Wolf de ribber), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pull	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holt	compound
6	holt	holt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	list
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 pull	discourse
8	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pull	obj
10	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 den	punct
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	conj
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	list
17	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Buh	flat
18	wus	wus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	obj
19	teh	teh	ADP	_	21 eh	case
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 eh	compound
21	eh	eh	X	_	8 pull	obj
22	flut	flut	X	_	21 eh	goeswith
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ribber	det
24	juk	juk	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wolf	compound
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wolf	compound
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ribber	compound
27	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 Wolf	flat
28	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ribber	amod
29	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	flat
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 drown	det
31	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ribber	acl
32	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drown	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	infinitive	Wen eh holt	Buh Buh and den				wus obj	tree rules
2	drown	infinitive	a Wolf de ribber not said here	um					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 87