Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 158

Eh drag isself trugh de mash, an eh gone in de broom-grass fiel, and tretch isself in de grass, an fall fas tersleep.

Who acts: you · What happens: drag, go, tretch · To what, where: isself, eh, de grass fiel, de grass

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	INTJ	_	2 drag	discourse
2	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drag	obj
4	trugh	trugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drag	obj
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 mash	compound
6	mash	mash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trugh	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trugh	appos
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eh	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 fiel	case
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fiel	amod
13	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 broom	punct
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fiel	compound
16	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tretch	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tretch	cc
19	tretch	tretch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 drag	conj
20	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tretch	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 grass	case
22	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grass	amod
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tretch	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tersleep	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tersleep	det
26	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fas	compound
27	fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tersleep	compound
28	tersleep	tersleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grass	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drag	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	imperative	you not said here	isself		trugh and de mash obj	tree rules
2	go	participle		a eh not said here	de grass fiel		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fiel=Location
3	tretch	infinitive	you not said here	isself	de grass		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 1, sentence 158

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 158