Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 115

Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an try fuh git eh head loose, but all eh twis an tun yent do um no good.

Who acts: eh twis · What happens: um · To what, where: good, Rattlesnake twis

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 (eh twis), 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 twis	discourse
2	Rattlesnake	Rattlesnake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 twis	compound
3	twis	twi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 twis	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrop	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wrop	det
7	wrop	wrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ehself	conj
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ehself	conj
9	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	4 ehself	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pole	det
11	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	compound
12	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	compound
13	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roun	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 try	det
16	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	conj
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	20 head	discourse
18	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eh	compound
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	compound
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	conj
21	loose	loose	ADV	_	20 head	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 um	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 um	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 twis	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 twis	amod
26	twis	twi	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 um	nsubj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 yent	det
28	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 yent	compound
29	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 twis	nmod:unmarked
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 um	aux
31	um	um	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 roun	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 good	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 um	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	um	present · do-support	all eh twis a tun yent	no good					tree rules

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 115

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 115