Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 139

Dem raise up de clorte wuh bin ober eh face, an eh look dist es natrul; an dem tell um goodbye one by one.

Who acts: Dem, eh · What happens: raise up, look, tell · To what, where: de, dist es, um goodbye · 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 (Dem, 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 raise	nsubj
2	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 raise	compound:prt
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 raise	obl
5	clorte	clorte	X	Foreign=Yes	4 de	flat
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	7 bin	discourse
7	bin	bin	X	_	2 raise	obj
8	ober	ober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bin	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eh	det
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 raise	parataxis
15	dist	dist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 es	amod
16	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 look	obj
17	natrul	natrul	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dem	det
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 raise	parataxis
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goodbye	compound
23	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 goodbye	flat
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 tell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise up	present	Dem	de		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Theme
2	look	infinitive	a eh	dist es	natrul obj	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a dem	um goodbye	by one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Recipient

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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 139