Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 103

Wen de horse fine say eh head loose, eh mek fuh home; an befo Buh Wolf fine out eh run tru de big gate an roun de house ter de stable.

Who acts: Wen, befo · What happens: say, fine out, run · To what, where: eh head, tru · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, befo), 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	5 say	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	appos
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	loose	loose	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eh	punct
10	eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 home	compound
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 home	amod
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fine	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 befo	det
16	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fine	nsubj
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 befo	appos
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Buh	flat
19	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 fine	compound:prt
21	eh	eh	ADV	_	22 run	advmod
22	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fine	xcomp
23	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	22 run	obj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 tru	flat
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gate	amod
26	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tru	appos
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ter	det
28	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ter	compound
31	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stable	compound
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 ter	flat:foreign
33	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gate	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Wen	eh head	loose property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	fine out	past	a befo			tree rules
3	run	infinitive	a befo not said here	tru		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tru=Trajectory

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 10, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 103