Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 247

Eh lay isself out ter eh berry lenk, but befo eh ketch de nex mile pose eh meet Buh Cooter in de road dis a passin er dat pose.

Who acts: Eh, eh ketch · What happens: lie out, pose, meet · To what, where: isself, Buh Cooter, de road dis

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, eh ketch), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 lay	compound:prt
5	ter	ter	ADP	_	8 lenk	case
6	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lenk	det
7	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lenk	compound
8	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pose	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 pose	cc
11	befo	befo	ADP	_	13 ketch	case
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ketch	amod
13	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pose	nsubj
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ketch	flat:foreign
15	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mile	compound
16	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ketch	orphan
17	pose	pose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
18	eh	eh	ADV	_	19 meet	advmod
19	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pose	xcomp
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Cooter	compound
21	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meet	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 dis	case
23	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dis	compound
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dis	compound
25	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Cooter	nmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 passin	det
27	passin	passin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dis	conj
28	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 pose	advmod
29	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pose	amod
30	pose	pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passin	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie out	past	Eh	isself		ter eh berry lenk	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location isself=Theme
2	pose	present	eh ketch nex mile				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	meet	infinitive	eh ketch nex mile not said here	Buh Cooter	de road dis and a passin dat pose		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooter=Co-Agent

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 247

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 247