Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 235

Deese yer Cooter am all so much like one anurrer you cant tell one from turrer.

Who acts: Deese, you · What happens: be, cant, tell · To what, where: one anurrer, one, turrer · 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 (Deese, you), 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	Deese	Deese	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 anurrer	nsubj
2	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Cooter	nmod:poss
3	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deese	appos
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anurrer	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	10 anurrer	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 anurrer	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 anurrer	nummod
10	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 cant	nsubj
12	cant	cant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anurrer	acl:relcl
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cant	xcomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 tell	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 turrer	case
16	turrer	turrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 anurrer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Deese			like one anurrer	tree rules
2	cant	present	you	one anurrer not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	one	turrer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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 235

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 235