Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 324

Ef you dont loosne me han an me knee right off, me guine bus you wide open wid dis head.”

Who acts: Ef, me, you · What happens: loosne, bus, wide · To what, where: me, open wid dis 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 (Ef, me, you), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loosne	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 loosne	nsubj
3	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	4 loosne	dep
4	loosne	loosne	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 loosne	obj
6	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosne	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knee	det
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 knee	compound
9	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosne	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 off	advmod
11	off	off	ADV	_	4 loosne	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bus	punct
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bus	nsubj
14	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bus	amod
15	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosne	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wide	nsubj
17	wide	wide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bus	acl:relcl
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
19	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
20	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 head	compound
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wide	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loosne	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 loosne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	loosne	infinitive	Ef	me	you nsubj; han obj; a me knee obj; off property	tree rules
2	bus		me			tree rules
3	wide	present	you	open wid dis head		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 324

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 324