Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 249

Eh yent bin want fur bleeve eh own yeye wen eh see Buh Cooter dere done git head er um agin.

Who acts: yent bin, own wen eh, Buh Cooter dere · What happens: want, see, do · To what, where: fur bleeve, Buh Cooter dere, git 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 (yent bin, own wen eh, Buh Cooter dere), 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	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
2	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bin	amod
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	advcl
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bleeve	compound
6	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	eh	eh	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eh	amod
9	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wen	compound
10	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	compound
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dere	compound
14	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dere	compound
15	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dere	acl
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 head	compound
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obj
19	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 agin	advmod
20	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 agin	amod
21	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	yent bin	fur bleeve		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bleeve=Theme
2	see	infinitive	own wen eh	Buh Cooter dere		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dere=Stimulus
3	do	participle	Buh Cooter dere not said here	git head	um agin obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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 249

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 249