Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 95

Buh Wolf bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him go long too, an see ef him couldnt mek rangement wid Buh Porpus fuh fine him een fish.

Who acts: Buh, ef · What happens: leh, go, see, wi · To what, where: fren, Buh · 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 (Buh, ef), 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	7 leh	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	list
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 leh	discourse
7	leh	leh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leh	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leh	xcomp
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 go	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 see	det
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leh	conj
15	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wid	nsubj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ef	obj
17	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ef	conj
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rangement	compound
19	rangement	rangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wid	nsubj
20	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wid	obj
22	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 fine	discourse
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wid	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fine	nsubj
26	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 fish	nummod
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fine	nsubj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leh	infinitive	Buh bague	fren		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Buh bague not said here		long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	Buh bague not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	wi	past	ef fren and couldnt	Buh	mek rangement nsubj	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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 95