Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

Wid dat, Buh Rabbit git one long grape-wine, an eh tie one een roun Buh Porpus head, an de tarruh een eh tie fus roun Buh Wolf body, an den roun him own; but eh leff de een loose, so him kin slip out.

Who acts: Wid dat, een eh, Buh · What happens: tie, slip out · To what, where: one Buh head, fus roun

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 (Wid dat, een eh, 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	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 git	punct
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 git	compound
6	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	appos
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 wine	nummod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wine	amod
9	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wine	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grape	punct
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 git	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eh	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eh	det
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
15	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 head	nummod
17	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 roun	nummod
18	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Buh	nmod:desc
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 head	compound
20	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Buh	flat
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tarruh	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tarruh	det
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 tarruh	compound
25	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	obl
26	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 eh	nummod
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tie	nsubj
28	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tie	parataxis
29	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 roun	amod
30	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tie	obj
31	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Wolf	compound
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 body	compound
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roun	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 roun	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 roun	det
36	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 roun	compound
37	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roun	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 roun	obj
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 roun	amod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 leff	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 leff	cc
42	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 leff	det
43	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tie	obl
44	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	43 leff	flat:foreign
45	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	43 leff	conj
46	loose	loose	ADV	_	45 een	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 slip	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	51 slip	advmod
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 slip	nsubj
50	kin	kin	ADV	_	51 slip	advmod
51	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tie	conj
52	out	out	ADP	_	51 slip	compound:prt
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tie	infinitive	Wid dat and a eh	one Buh head	a de tarruh obl; eh leff obl	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	tie	present	een eh	fus roun and Wolf body and a den roun Buh		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Patient
3	slip out	present	Buh		kin property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 5

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 5