Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 114

Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose roun eh neck an fastne um tight ter de een der de pole.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: slip · To what, where: one noose, Man sir

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 (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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sir	compound
2	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sir	punct
4	befo	befo	SCONJ	_	12 slip	mark
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 slip	nsubj
6	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Buh	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 fine	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Rabbit	punct
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	conj
12	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sir	advcl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 noose	nummod
14	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slip	obj
15	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	14 noose	dep
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 neck	amod
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noose	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
19	fastne	fastne	X	_	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slip	obl
21	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ter	amod
22	ter	ter	X	_	25 der	compound
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 ter	flat:foreign
24	een	een	X	_	25 der	compound
25	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	appos
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 der	flat:foreign
27	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 der	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Buh and Buh Rabbit	one noose and eh neck				a fastne um obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent noose=Patient

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 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 114