Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 86

Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh bun me een, gone ter de top er de tree, an eh bin full er honey.

Who acts: you, ter · What happens: try, tree · To what, where: bun, holler way

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 (you, ter), 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 answer	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Rabbit	conj
5	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	amod
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nsubj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Budder	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Budder	punct
9	Budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dat	punct
11	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Budder	conj
12	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	compound
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 try	nsubj
15	bin	bin	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 try	aux
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 way	acl:relcl
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 bun	discourse
18	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 try	obj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bun	appos
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bun	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tree	punct
22	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tree	amod
23	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	28 tree	nsubj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 ter	flat:foreign
25	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tree	amod
26	er	er	X	_	28 tree	compound
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 er	flat:foreign
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bun	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bin	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bin	det
31	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bin	amod
32	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	appos
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 honey	amod
34	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 honey	compound
35	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bin	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote		you	bun and gone top er tree					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Eventuality
2	tree in a quote		ter					a eh bin and full er honey appos	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 86

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 86