Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 167

Eh say to isself: “I guine mek Buh Alligatur know wuh call trouble dis day.”

Who acts: Eh, guine mek · What happens: say, know, call · To what, where: isself · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, guine mek), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 isself	case
4	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 mek	nsubj
8	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mek	amod
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 know	nsubj
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mek	flat
11	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	14 call	discourse
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	ccomp
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dis	compound
16	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	compound
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Eh	isself		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to isself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	guine mek I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	call in a quote	infinitive			day	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 167

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 167