Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

Buh Rabbit mek um quaintum wid Buh Wolf, an arter er while Buh Wolf ax Buh Porpus fuh fine um een fish same luk eh fine Buh Rabbit, an Buh Porpus gree fur do so.

Who acts: Rabbit um quaintum, um fish, Buh · What happens: wi, gree, do · To what, where: Buh, fur

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 (Rabbit um quaintum, um fish, Buh), 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	INTJ	_	6 wid	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 quaintum	compound
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	flat
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quaintum	compound
5	quaintum	quaintum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wid	nsubj
6	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wid	obj
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 er	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 er	det
11	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 er	compound
12	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	appos
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 do	mark
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wolf	compound
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ax	compound
16	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	nmod:desc
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 do	nsubj
18	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	flat
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	20 fine	discourse
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	amod
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fish	compound
22	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 um	flat
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gree	nsubj
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 luk	amod
25	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Rabbit	nmod:desc
26	eh	eh	ADV	_	29 Rabbit	advmod
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Rabbit	amod
28	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Rabbit	compound
29	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fish	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Porpus	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Porpus	det
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Porpus	compound
33	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Rabbit	conj
34	gree	gree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Buh	acl:relcl
35	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gree	obj
36	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wid	advcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	36 do	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wi	past	Rabbit um quaintum	Buh	tree rules
2	gree	present	um fish fine Buh Rabbit same luk and a Buh Porpus	fur	tree rules
3	do	present	Buh Wolf ax		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 2