Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 90

Buh Wolf so lub honey eh furgit eh spite gainst Buh Rabbit, an eh come up an eh taste um, an eh fine out say honey bin all ober Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: eh · What happens: come up, say · To what, where: eh taste um, honey bin, Buh · 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), 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	root	root
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buh	flat
3	so	so	ADV	_	1 Buh	conj
4	lub	lub	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 honey	amod
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 so	nsubj
6	eh	eh	X	ExtPos=PROPN	5 honey	appos
7	furgit	furgit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gainst	amod
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gainst	amod
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gainst	compound
10	gainst	gainst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honey	appos
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rabbit	compound
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gainst	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Rabbit	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 um	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	amod
20	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 um	compound
21	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fine	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fine	det
24	eh	eh	ADV	_	25 fine	advmod
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 um	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADV	_	27 say	advmod
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fine	advcl
28	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bin	compound
29	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 Rabbit	det
31	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Buh	compound
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Rabbit	compound
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 say	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Buh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present	a eh	a eh taste um					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rabbit=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a eh not said here	honey bin				all Buh Rabbit ccomp; out property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bin=Topic

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 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 90