Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 11

Arter dat Buh Porpus swim back ter de bank an Buh Rabbit tek off de grape-wine from roun eh neck, an dem leff Buh Wolf een de water fuh shark an alligatur fuh eat.

Who acts: Arter, Buh, alligatur fuh · What happens: dat, swim back, eat · To what, where: ter de bank, water fuh shark

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arter, Buh, alligatur 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	Arter	Arter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	nsubj
2	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swim	nsubj
4	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dat	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
7	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bank	compound
8	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bank	compound
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tek	det
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tek	compound
12	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tek	compound
13	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	parataxis
14	off	off	ADP	_	18 wine	compound:prt
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 wine	compound
16	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wine	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 grape	punct
18	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tek	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 neck	case
20	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 neck	compound
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 neck	amod
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wine	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leff	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 leff	det
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leff	compound
26	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tek	conj
27	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 leff	appos
28	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Buh	flat
29	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Buh	list
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 leff	conj
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shark	compound
32	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shark	amod
33	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leff	conj
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fuh	det
35	alligatur	alligatur	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fuh	compound
36	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eat	nsubj
37	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 shark	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dat	past	Arter			tree rules
2	swim back	present	Buh	ter de bank	a Buh Rabbit tek and off de grape wine from roun eh neck and a dem leff and water fuh shark parataxis	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Trajectory
3	eat	present	a alligatur fuh	water fuh shark not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=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 8, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 11