Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 56

Den Buh Rabbit tell um fuh step ter him house an fetch eh fanner fuh ketch de pussimmon es eh pick um an drap um.

Who acts: Den, ketch, pussimmon es · What happens: tell, e, pick, drap · To what, where: um · 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 (Den, ketch, pussimmon es), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	compound
8	ter	ter	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 step	nmod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fanner	det
12	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fanner	compound
14	fanner	fanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	19 es	discourse
16	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 es	nsubj
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 ketch	flat:foreign
18	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 es	amod
19	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fanner	appos
20	eh	eh	PART	_	21 pick	mark
21	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 es	acl
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pick	obj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 drap	det
24	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pick	advcl
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drap	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Den	um	fuh step house a eh fanner obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2	e		ketch			tree rules
3	pick	infinitive	pussimmon es not said here	um		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient
4	drap	present	pussimmon es not said here	um		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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 56