Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 62

Buh Wolf questun um, an wen eh fine out how Buh Rabbit done fool um an git way, eh tun een an cuss Buh Possum an beat um.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: um · To what, where: Buh questun 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 (Buh), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	questun	questun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wen	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wen	det
7	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	appos
8	eh	eh	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wen	amod
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 fine	compound:prt
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 um	advmod
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 um	nsubj
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Buh	flat
14	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	nsubj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tun	punct
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tun	amod
22	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	appos
23	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 tun	flat
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cuss	det
25	cuss	cuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	nsubj
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cuss	appos
27	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Buh	flat
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 um	det
29	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	compound
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fine	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 um	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	um		Buh					done fool um nsubj; a git way nsubj; a cuss nsubj	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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 62