Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

Dat de way Buh Rabbit tek eh rewenge on Buh Elephunt case eh mash eh chillun, an dat de reason huccum Buh Elephunt hab flop yez tel ter-day.

Who acts: Buh hab · What happens: rewenge, flop · To what, where: way Rabbit tek, case eh mash, yez

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 (Buh hab), 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	Dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 way	compound
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
6	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rewenge	obl
7	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tek	dep
8	rewenge	rewenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	14 mash	case
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mash	nsubj
11	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mash	compound
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mash	amod
14	mash	mash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rewenge	obl
15	eh	eh	ADV	_	16 chillun	advmod
16	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mash	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 huccum	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 huccum	det
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 huccum	compound
20	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dat	flat
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 huccum	compound
22	huccum	huccum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mash	conj
23	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hab	compound
24	Elephunt	Elephunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buh	flat
25	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flop	nsubj
26	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 huccum	acl:relcl
27	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	26 flop	obj
28	tel	tel	X	Foreign=Yes	27 yez	flat:foreign
29	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ter	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yez	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rewenge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rewenge	present		way Rabbit tek		case eh mash Buh and chillun and a dat reason huccum			tree rules
2	flop	present	Buh hab	yez ter day					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yez=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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 32