Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 215

Eh draw in eh neck, an eh try fur hide eh head, an eh look dat pittyful you rale sorry for um.

Who acts: Eh draw · What happens: hide, look · To what, where: head

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 draw), 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 draw	compound
2	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hide	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 neck	case
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neck	amod
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draw	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fur	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fur	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fur	amod
9	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fur	compound
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draw	conj
11	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hide	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eh	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	conj
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 hide	parataxis
18	dat	dat	X	_	17 look	vocative
19	pittyful	pittyful	X	_	18 dat	goeswith
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 dat	goeswith
21	rale	rale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dat	flat
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dat	goeswith
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 um	case
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dat	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Eh draw in eh neck and a eh try fur	eh head and a eh					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	look	infinitive						dat you for um vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 215

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 215