Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

Es dem duh gwine Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf say Porpus meat berry nice, an eh tink mebbe dem kin ketch Buh Porpus an eat um.

Who acts: Es, Buh, eh, mebbe, dem kin ketch · What happens: tell, say, tink, ketch, eat · To what, where: Porpus meat berry, um · 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 (Es, Buh, eh, mebbe), 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	Es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	nsubj
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gwine	compound
3	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 gwine	discourse
4	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Es	nmod
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gwine	appos
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
11	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 berry	compound
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 berry	compound
13	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 berry	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tink	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tink	nsubj
18	tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 berry	conj
19	mebbe	mebbe	X	Foreign=Yes	22 ketch	nsubj
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ketch	compound
21	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ketch	amod
22	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tink	obj
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ketch	appos
24	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	flat
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 eat	det
26	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ketch	acl:relcl
27	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Es dem gwine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	Buh	Porpus meat berry		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent berry=Topic
3	tink	infinitive	a eh			tree rules
4	ketch		mebbe		Buh appos	tree rules
5	eat	present	dem kin ketch not said here	um		vn eat-39.1-1 «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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 97