Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 50

Buh Rabbit so light eh gone out on one leely limb way Buh Wolf couldnt foller um ner retch um.

Who acts: light, one, Buh um ner · What happens: go out, limb, retch · To what, where: Rabbit, way, um

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 (light, one, Buh um ner), 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	INTJ	_	2 Rabbit	discourse
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 light	advmod
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	nsubj
5	eh	eh	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 gone	compound:prt
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 limb	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 limb	nsubj
10	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 limb	nsubj
11	limb	limb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	advcl
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 limb	obj
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ner	compound
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
15	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foller	compound
16	foller	foller	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ner	compound
18	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 retch	nsubj
19	retch	retch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 limb	parataxis
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 retch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go out	participle	light	Rabbit	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	limb	present	one	way	tree rules
3	retch	present	Buh um ner	um	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 50