Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 112

Buh Rattlesnake laugh at um, an eh mek answer dat eh know eh yiz long mo na de stick.

Who acts: Rattlesnake, eh dat eh · What happens: laugh, know · To what, where: um, yiz long mo

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rattlesnake, eh dat eh), 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	_	3 laugh	discourse
2	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	nsubj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 um	case
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eh	amod
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answer	compound
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dat	compound
11	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	parataxis
14	eh	eh	X	_	15 yiz	compound
15	yiz	yiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mo	compound
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mo	amod
17	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
18	na	na	X	Foreign=Yes	20 stick	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 na	flat
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mo	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Rattlesnake			um			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	a eh dat eh	yiz long mo and na stick					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus

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 9, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 112