Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 14

De Ole Man berry bex, an eh dribe home an tell eh wife bout de ting.

To what, where: berry bex

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: 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ole	compound
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bex	nsubj
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bex	nsubj
4	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bex	compound
5	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dribe	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dribe	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dribe	amod
9	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bex	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 dribe	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bout	det
12	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bout	compound
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bout	compound
15	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dribe	appos
16	de	de	ADP	_	17 ting	case
17	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bout	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bex	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 14