Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 23

Eh quaintun wid de place way Buh Elephunt blan leddown fuh tek eh res; so eh watch um, an wen eh done gone der bed, Buh Rabbit, him slip back an eh call eh wife, and dem gedder dry leaf an dead grass, an dem tote um ter de spot way Buh Elephunt duh sleep, an dem full all two Buh Elephunt yez long de leaf an grass.

Who acts: wen eh, eh · What happens: do, slip back · To what, where: gone der bed, eh call

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 (wen eh, eh), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wid	nsubj
2	quaintun	quaintun	X	Foreign=Yes	3 wid	nsubj
3	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 way	advmod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	compound
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wid	obl:unmarked
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	appos
8	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tek	amod
10	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fuh	compound
11	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tek	compound
12	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	conj
13	eh	eh	ADP	_	14 res	case
14	res	re	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tek	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 um	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 eh	advmod
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
18	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wid	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eh	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 eh	det
22	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eh	compound
23	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	appos
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 eh	acl
25	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bed	amod
26	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 bed	amod
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Rabbit	punct
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Rabbit	compound
30	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 um	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slip	punct
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 slip	nsubj
33	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wid	conj
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 slip	advmod
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 call	det
36	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 call	amod
37	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slip	obl
38	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wife	det
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slip	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dem	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dem	cc
42	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wid	conj
43	gedder	gedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 dem	amod
44	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 leaf	amod
45	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gedder	advcl
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 grass	det
47	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 grass	amod
48	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 leaf	appos
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 tote	punct
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 tote	det
51	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tote	compound
52	tote	tote	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 grass	appos
53	um	um	X	_	54 ter	compound
54	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tote	appos
55	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	54 ter	flat:foreign
56	spot	spot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 way	amod
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ter	conj
58	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 way	appos
59	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Buh	flat
60	duh	duh	INTJ	_	61 sleep	discourse
61	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Buh	appos
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 dem	punct
63	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 dem	det
64	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Buh	appos
65	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 dem	amod
66	all	all	ADV	_	69 Elephunt	advmod
67	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	69 Elephunt	nummod
68	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 Elephunt	compound
69	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 dem	nmod
70	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	69 Elephunt	dep
71	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 leaf	amod
72	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	73 leaf	compound
73	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 yez	appos
74	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 grass	det
75	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 leaf	appos
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle	a wen eh not said here	gone der bed					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality
2	slip back	present	eh	a eh call				eh wife obl	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 23

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 23