Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 122

Buh Bear, him hab well, an steader Buh Rabbit fine him own water, eh blan slip ter Buh Bear well an tief water outer um.

Who acts: Buh Bear · What happens: fine · To what, where: Buh

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 (Buh Bear), 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 Bear	compound
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fine	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Bear	nmod
5	hab	hab	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	2 Bear	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hab	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 steader	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 steader	det
9	steader	steader	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bear	conj
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 steader	appos
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	obj
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fine	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
17	eh	eh	INTJ	_	20 ter	discourse
18	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ter	amod
19	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ter	compound
20	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fine	parataxis
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ter	appos
22	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 um	advmod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
25	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 um	amod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
27	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 um	amod
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fine	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fine	past	Buh Bear buil and a steader		Buh			a tief water outer um obl; own water obj; blan slip ter parataxis	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Asset

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 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 122