Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 18

Buh Rabbit no bin day at de time, an wen eh git back eh fine eh nes done broke up, an all tree eh chillun squash flat.

Who acts: Rabbit, tree · What happens: do, break up, squash · To what, where: fine eh nes, eh git

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 (Rabbit, tree), 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	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 broke	nsubj
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 day	det
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	appos
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 git	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 git	det
11	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 git	compound
13	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broke	obl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 git	advmod
15	eh	eh	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nes	amod
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nes	amod
18	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 broke	nsubj
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nes	acl
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 broke	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 squash	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 squash	nsubj
26	eh	eh	ADP	_	27 chillun	case
27	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	nmod
28	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 broke	parataxis
29	flat	flat	ADV	_	28 squash	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle		fine eh nes not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break up	past	Rabbit	a eh git	fine eh nes nsubj	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squash	present	a tree eh chillun		flat property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 18