Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 96

Soon es eh git een, Buh Rabbit tek one lightwood knot an eh chink up de hole so Buh Wolf couldnt come out.

Who acts: es, Wolf couldnt · What happens: knot, chink up, come out · To what, where: eh, de hole

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 (es, Wolf couldnt), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 knot	advmod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knot	nsubj
3	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 een	amod
4	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 een	compound
5	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 es	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tek	punct
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	compound
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tek	compound
9	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 een	appos
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 lightwood	nummod
11	lightwood	lightwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tek	conj
12	knot	knot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eh	det
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knot	obj
15	chink	chink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 knot	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 chink	compound:prt
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 hole	compound
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chink	obj
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Wolf	compound
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 couldnt	compound
22	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 chink	advcl
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knot	infinitive	es eh git een	a eh	soon property	tree rules
2	chink up	infinitive	es eh git een not said here	de hole		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=Theme
3	come out	present	Wolf couldnt		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 96