Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 41

Soon es eh ketch eh bref eh say: “Buh Wolf, wuh you bin do long dem Cooter agg?

Who acts: es, you · What happens: say, bin, do · To what, where: Buh Wolf, long Cooter agg · 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 (es, you), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 say	advmod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
3	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eh	amod
4	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bref	compound
6	bref	bref	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	compound
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 es	nmod
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Wolf	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Wolf	punct
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wolf	compound
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bin	punct
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 bin	discourse
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bin	nsubj
16	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bin	conj
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 agg	amod
19	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Cooter	compound
20	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 agg	compound
21	agg	agg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	es eh bref eh	Buh Wolf	soon property	tree rules
2	bin in a quote	present	you			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present	you not said here	long Cooter agg		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agg=Eventuality

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 41