Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

Eh git rale mad, an eh mek eh jump fuh graff Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit too quick fur um, and eh tek ter eh heel.

Who acts: eh mek eh, Buh Rabbit, eh tek · What happens: jump, um, heel · To what, where: graff Buh Rabbit, Eh git rale

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 (eh mek eh, Buh Rabbit, eh tek), 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 rale	compound
2	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rale	compound
3	rale	rale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rale	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 jump	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eh	amod
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jump	nsubj
10	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rale	conj
11	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	14 Rabbit	discourse
12	graff	graff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 jump	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 um	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 um	cc
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Rabbit	compound
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 um	nsubj
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 quick	advmod
20	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 um	amod
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rale	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heel	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heel	cc
25	eh	eh	X	_	26 tek	compound
26	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heel	nsubj
27	ter	ter	X	_	29 heel	compound
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heel	amod
29	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rale	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	jump	infinitive	a eh mek eh	graff Buh Rabbit	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	um		Buh Rabbit		tree rules
3	heel		eh tek		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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 48