Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

Buh Wolf nebber spicion say Buh Rabbit bin er tell um lie, an eh tenk um berry much, an eh gone git de Cooter agg an trow um way.

Who acts: Buh nebber spicion, eh · What happens: say, tell, berry, go, git, trow · To what, where: Buh, um lie · 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 (Buh nebber spicion, 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	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spicion	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spicion	compound
4	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
9	er	er	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 berry	advcl
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	compound
12	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 um	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 um	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 um	amod
16	tenk	tenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	conj
18	berry	berry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
19	much	much	ADV	_	18 berry	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 git	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eh	det
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 git	nsubj
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 git	amod
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 berry	obl
25	de	de	ADP	_	27 agg	case
26	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 agg	compound
27	agg	agg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 git	nmod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 way	det
29	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 way	compound
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 way	compound
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 agg	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Buh nebber spicion	Buh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buh=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		um lie and a eh tenk um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
3	berry	present				vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	participle				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	git		a eh		de Cooter agg a trow um way	tree rules
6	trow	infinitive				tree rules

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 45

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 45