Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 367

Dis de place me mammy fotch me up,--dis de place me mammy fotch me up:” an eh gone befo Buh Wolf kin ketch um.

What happens: go · To what, where: eh, place mammy fotch

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	Dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Dis	flat:foreign
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fotch	compound
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 place	nmod:unmarked
5	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fotch	compound
6	fotch	fotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fotch	nsubj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fotch	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 fotch	compound
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 dis	punct
11	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	compound
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fotch	compound
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 place	goeswith
15	mammy	mammy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fotch	compound
16	fotch	fotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fotch	goeswith
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 fotch	compound
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 fotch	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 fotch	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eh	det
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fotch	appos
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 eh	acl
24	befo	befo	ADP	_	29 um	case
25	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wolf	compound
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 um	nsubj
27	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
28	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fotch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	participle		a eh not said here				befo kin ketch um Buh Wolf	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 367

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 367