Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 216

Eh duh half cry, an eh say to isself: “Nummine, wen dis rain ober me guine buil house right off.

Who acts: eh, Nummine · What happens: say, ober · To what, where: half cry, isself, eh · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Nummine), 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	4 cry	nsubj
2	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 cry	discourse
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 cry	compound
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eh	det
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 isself	case
10	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ober	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ober	punct
13	Nummine	Nummine	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ober	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rain	punct
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dis	compound
16	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rain	compound
17	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Nummine	appos
18	ober	ober	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ober	obj
20	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 house	amod
21	buil	buil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	compound
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ober	obj
23	right	right	ADV	_	24 off	advmod
24	off	off	ADV	_	18 ober	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh	half cry Eh not said here	isself				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Topic to isself=Recipient
2	ober in a quote	infinitive	Nummine	a eh = eh				guine buil house obj; off property	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 216

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 216