Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 17

One day Buh Elephunt bin er hunt eh bittle, an eh gone miss an mash topper Buh Rabbit nes, an kill eh chillun.

What happens: bin, hunt, go, miss · To what, where: eh, bittle, mash topper

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: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obl:unmarked
3	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
4	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Buh	flat
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	er	er	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bin	advcl
8	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bittle	det
9	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obl
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 eh	acl
14	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	xcomp
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 topper	det
16	mash	mash	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 topper	compound
17	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 miss	obj
18	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 nes	compound
19	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nes	compound
20	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 topper	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chillun	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 chillun	det
23	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	compound
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chillun	compound
25	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nes	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bin	present	a eh	day	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	infinitive	eh bittle		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=Theme
3	go	participle	a eh not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	miss	infinitive	a mash topper Buh Rabbit nes a eh chillun		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer topper=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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 17