Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 209

From dat day to dis you kin nebber ketch Buh Alligatur sleep fur from de bank; an de fus time eh yeddy bush crack, er anyting mek rackit, eh leggo eberyting an fall right in de water.

Who acts: day, de · What happens: dis, crack, eberyt · To what, where: kin, de bank, fall, de water

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 (day, de), 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	From	from	SCONJ	_	5 dis	mark
2	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dis	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dis	mark
5	dis	dis	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 eberyting	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 kin	nsubj
7	kin	kin	X	_	5 dis	obj
8	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ketch	compound
9	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kin	flat
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fur	compound
11	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Buh	flat
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fur	compound
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kin	flat
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 bank	case
15	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bank	compound
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kin	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 crack	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 de	det
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 crack	nsubj
20	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crack	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yeddy	compound
23	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bush	compound
24	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crack	compound
25	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dis	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 anyting	punct
27	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anyting	amod
28	anyting	anything	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crack	appos
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 rackit	compound
30	rackit	rackit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 anyting	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dis	punct
32	eh	eh	INTJ	_	34 eberyting	discourse
33	leggo	leggo	X	Foreign=Yes	34 eberyting	flat:foreign
34	eberyting	eberyt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fall	det
36	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eberyting	obj
37	right	right	ADV	_	40 water	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 water	case
39	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 water	amod
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eberyting	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 eberyting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dis	to-infinitive	that day	kin you	de bank		tree rules
2	crack		a de			er anyting and mek rackit appos	tree rules
3	eberyt	gerund		a fall	de water		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 209

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 209