Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 207

Ef me ebber ketch you close dis ribber, me guine larne you how ter come fool long me.”

Who acts: you, me · What happens: close, larne, come · To what, where: Ef ebber ketch, fool

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, me), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ketch	compound
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Ef	iobj
3	ebber	ebb	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ketch	amod
4	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 close	nsubj
6	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ribber	compound
8	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 larne	punct
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 larne	nsubj
11	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 larne	compound
12	larne	larne	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 come	advmod
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 larne	acl:relcl
17	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obj
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 me	advmod
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	present	you	Ef ebber ketch	dis ribber obj	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribber=Patient
2	larne		me			tree rules
3	come	present	you	fool	me obl; ter nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fool=Theme

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 207

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 207