Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

Eh saterfy say Buh Rabbit done bun up, an eh gone home, an eh mek brag ter him fambly say him bin stroy Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: Eh, Buh Rabbit · What happens: say, do up, go, stroy · To what, where: bun, eh, Buh Rabbit · 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 (Eh, Buh Rabbit), 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 say	nsubj
2	saterfy	saterfy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	flat
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	ccomp
7	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 done	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eh	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eh	det
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	nsubj
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 eh	acl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brag	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brag	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brag	amod
17	mek	mek	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brag	compound
18	brag	brag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	conj
19	ter	ter	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brag	nmod
21	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	obj
24	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stroy	compound
25	stroy	stroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Rabbit	compound
27	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stroy	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Eh			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do up	participle	Buh Rabbit	bun		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Eventuality
3	go	participle		a eh and a eh mek brag ter bun not said here	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	a eh and a eh mek brag ter bun	bun	fambly property	tree rules
5	stroy	infinitive		Buh Rabbit	bin compound	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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 80