Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 57

Buh Possum so anxious fuh tase de pussimmon eh clean furgit wuh Buh Wolf bin leff um fuh do, an so eh gone ter him house fuh git eh fanner.

Who acts: Buh um fuh, eh · What happens: do, go · To what, where: house, anxious tase

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 um fuh, 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	INTJ	_	2 Possum	discourse
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tase	nmod:poss
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 anxious	advmod
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tase	amod
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	6 tase	discourse
6	tase	tase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tase	flat:foreign
8	pussimmon	pussimmon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tase	amod
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 pussimmon	discourse
10	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 furgit	amod
11	furgit	furgit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pussimmon	conj
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	19 do	discourse
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fuh	compound
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
15	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
16	leff	leff	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fuh	compound
18	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 furgit	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eh	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 eh	det
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 eh	advmod
23	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tase	conj
24	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 eh	acl
25	ter	ter	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gone	obl
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gone	obl
28	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fanner	amod
29	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	compound
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fanner	compound
31	fanner	fanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tase	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Buh um fuh						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	participle	a eh not said here	house fuh eh fanner				ter fuh	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 57