Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 97

Den eh gedder some fat pine, an eh mek fire an eh bun Buh Wolf up een de holler.

Who acts: Den · What happens: eh · To what, where: gedder

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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 pine	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pine	amod
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fire	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fire	amod
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	parataxis
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bun	det
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bun	amod
14	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	conj
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bun	appos
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 Buh	compound:prt
18	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	20 holler	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 een	flat
20	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	list
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Den	gedder				some fat pine obj; a eh mek fire and a eh bun parataxis	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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 97