Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 317

Wen eh fine eh cant loosne eh han, eh kick de Tar Baby wid eh knee.

Who acts: Wen, Tar · What happens: eh, kick, wi · To what, where: fine eh cant eh han, de, eh knee

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 (Wen, Tar), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 han	amod
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 han	amod
5	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 han	amod
6	loosne	loosne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	compound
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 han	compound
8	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kick	punct
10	eh	eh	INTJ	_	11 kick	discourse
11	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 eh	parataxis
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 kick	obl
13	Tar	Tar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wid	nsubj
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tar	flat
15	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kick	ccomp
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knee	amod
17	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wid	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen	fine eh cant eh han	tree rules
2	kick	infinitive		de	tree rules
3	wi	past	Tar	eh knee	tree rules

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 317

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 317