Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 169

Eh light one fat pine tick, an eh set fire to de broom-grass all roun an roun de fiel.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: light · To what, where: one fat pine tick

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), 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 light	nsubj
2	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tick	nummod
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tick	amod
5	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tick	compound
6	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	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	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	compound
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tick	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 grass	case
13	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
14	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grass	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 broom	punct
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 roun	det
18	roun	roun	X	_	20 roun	compound
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 roun	det
20	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	obl:unmarked
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 roun	flat:foreign
22	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roun	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	Eh	one fat pine tick and a eh set fire				to de broom grass; all roun roun and fiel obl:unmarked	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Product

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 169

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 169