Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 94

Buh Wolf ax Buh Rabbit way eh git de fish, an Buh Rabbit tell um say him fren, Buh Porpus, blan ketch um fur um, an dat him hab er pintment dat berry day wid Buh Porpus.

Who acts: git, berry day · What happens: tell, say, wi · To what, where: um, git, Buh, Rabbit way · 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 (git, berry day), 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ax	compound
3	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	compound
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 git	det
8	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
9	de	de	ADP	_	10 fish	case
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 git	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Rabbit	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Rabbit	det
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 git	conj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Buh	punct
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fren	appos
22	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 um	punct
24	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 um	amod
25	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fur	compound
27	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fren	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dat	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dat	det
31	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fren	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dat	obj
33	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 er	compound
34	er	er	PUNCT	_	39 wid	punct
35	pintment	pintment	X	_	34 er	goeswith
36	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 berry	compound
37	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 day	compound
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wid	nsubj
39	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dat	acl:relcl
40	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 wid	obj
41	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Buh	flat
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	eh git de fish and a Buh Rabbit	um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	eh git de fish and a Buh Rabbit not said here	git	fren and blan fur um and a dat git obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme fren=Manner
3	wi	past	berry day	Buh	hab compound	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 94

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 94