Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 113

Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry lenk on de log, an Buh Rabbit pit de pole long side er um fuh medjuh um.

Who acts: you · What happens: settle out · To what, where: de

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 (you), 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	Fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	2 settle	discourse
2	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 settle	obl
4	bet	bet	X	_	7 tretch	compound
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tretch	compound
6	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	tretch	tretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 settle	obl
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tretch	nmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	2 settle	compound:prt
10	ter	ter	ADP	_	13 lenk	case
11	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lenk	det
12	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lenk	compound
13	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 settle	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 log	case
15	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 log	nmod:poss
16	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lenk	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pit	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pit	det
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pit	compound
20	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pit	compound
21	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lenk	conj
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 pit	flat:foreign
23	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	compound
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 side	amod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 er	compound
26	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	21 pit	appos
27	um	um	X	_	26 er	flat
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	26 er	discourse
29	medjuh	medjuh	INTJ	_	30 um	discourse
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 er	flat
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 settle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle out	imperative	you not said here	de				ter eh berry lenk on de's log and a Buh Rabbit pit; bet Buh tretch ehself obl	vn correspond-36.1 «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 9, sentence 113

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 113