Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 21

Buh Elephunt mek answer an say him yent do um; him yent know nuttne bout um.

Who acts: Elephunt, yent · What happens: answer, say, do, know · To what, where: Elephunt, um, bout um · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Elephunt, yent), 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	_	4 answer	discourse
2	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Elephunt	flat
4	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 say	det
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	advcl
15	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bout	compound
16	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	Elephunt		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		Elephunt	tree rules
3	do	present	yent	um	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality
4	know	present	yent	bout um	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 21