Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

Eh so happne say Buh Wolf come pon topper Buh Rabbit duh eat dem Cooter agg, an eh see right off how Buh Rabbit done fool um.

Who acts: happne, Buh, Buh Rabbit, dem · What happens: say, come, eat, see · To what, where: Eh, pon topper · 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 (happne, Buh, Buh Rabbit, dem), 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	4 say	obl
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
3	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 topper	compound
9	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obj
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 eat	nsubj
12	duh	duh	INTJ	_	13 eat	discourse
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 topper	acl:relcl
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	nsubj
15	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agg	compound
16	agg	agg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dem	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eh	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eh	det
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	compound
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
21	right	right	ADV	_	28 um	advmod
22	off	off	ADP	_	28 um	case
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 um	advmod
24	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 um	nsubj
25	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Buh	flat
26	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 um	amod
27	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	happne	Eh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	Buh	pon topper		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location topper=Theme
3	eat	infinitive	Buh Rabbit	pon topper not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topper=Patient
4	see	infinitive	dem and Cooter agg		off done fool um Buh; a eh compound	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 47