Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 205

Den eh raise isself on de top er de water an eh holler back to Buh Rabbit: “Nummine, Boy, golong dis time.

Who acts: Den eh · What happens: raise · To what, where: isself, de top er

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 (Den 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	nsubj
3	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raise	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 er	case
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 er	amod
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 er	compound
8	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obl
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 er	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 holler	det
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 holler	amod
13	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obl:unmarked
14	back	back	ADV	_	3 raise	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Rabbit	case
16	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Rabbit	compound
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Nummine	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Nummine	punct
20	Nummine	Nummine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 raise	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Boy	punct
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Nummine	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 time	punct
24	golong	golong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
25	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 time	compound
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Nummine	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	Den eh	isself		de top er and de water		a eh holler obl:unmarked; Nummine 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 1, sentence 205

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 205