Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 238

Anurrer gone to de nex mile pose, an anurrer to de nex: so dat on de day wen de race fur run, Buh Cooter hab a fren at ebery mile pose.

Who acts: Anurrer, dat wen · What happens: go, de, run · To what, where: nex mile pose, nex, Buh Cooter hab

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 (Anurrer, dat wen), 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	Anurrer	Anurrer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gone	nsubj
2	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 pose	case
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 pose	nsubj
5	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pose	compound
6	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pose	compound
7	pose	pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anurrer	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 anurrer	det
10	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pose	appos
11	to	to	PART	_	12 de	mark
12	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 anurrer	acl
13	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 de	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 wen	advmod
16	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wen	compound
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dat	nmod
20	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	nsubj
21	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fur	amod
22	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fur	compound
23	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wen	conj
24	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gone	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hab	punct
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hab	compound
27	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hab	compound
28	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fren	det
30	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hab	appos
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 pose	case
32	ebery	ebery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pose	compound
33	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pose	compound
34	pose	pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fren	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	participle	Anurrer		nex mile pose	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pose=Initial_Location
2	de	to-infinitive	Anurrer not said here	nex		tree rules
3	run	present	dat wen and de race fur	Buh Cooter hab		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hab=Trajectory

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 238

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 238