Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 250

Eh so mad eh try fuh kick Buh Cooter outer de road, an eh straighten fur de las mile pose.

What happens: try, kick, straighten · To what, where: Buh Cooter, fur

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: 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	3 mad	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 mad	advmod
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	eh	eh	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mad	xcomp
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 kick	discourse
7	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	parataxis
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cooter	compound
9	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kick	obj
10	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 road	compound
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Cooter	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 road	conj
16	straighten	straighten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 kick	conj
17	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 straighten	obj
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 fur	conj
19	las	las	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pose	amod
20	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pose	compound
21	pose	pose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	flat
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	try	infinitive		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	kick	infinitive	Buh Cooter and outer de road and a eh	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cooter=Patient
3	straighten	infinitive	fur	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=Patient

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 250

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 250