Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 134

Den Buh Bear, him tek eh book an eh read um, an eh preach er sarmint.

Who acts: Den tek, eh · What happens: book, read, preach · To what, where: eh, um, sarmint

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 (Den tek, eh), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Den	nmod
6	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	nsubj
7	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 book	discourse
8	book	book	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eh	det
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	obj
11	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 eh	acl
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	conj
16	preach	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 book	conj
17	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 sarmint	advmod
18	sarmint	sarmint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preach	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 book	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	book	infinitive	Den tek	a eh and a eh	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eh=Theme
2	read	participle	a eh and a eh not said here	um	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Topic
3	preach speech: other	infinitive	Den tek not said here	sarmint	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarmint=Topic

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 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 134