Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 145

De people all stonish, an wen dem fine out de trute er de ting, dem berry bex; an, befo dem leff, dem bemean Buh Wolf sich er fashion eh bin shame fuh show ehself een de settlement fuh many er days.

Who acts: De people, dem leff, er eh bin shame · What happens: stonish, bemean, show · To what, where: wen dem, Buh sich, ehself

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 (De people, dem leff, er eh bin shame), 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 people	compound
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stonish	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 stonish	advmod
4	stonish	stonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dem	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dem	det
7	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dem	compound
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stonish	obj
9	fine	fine	ADV	_	10 out	advmod
10	out	out	ADV	_	13 er	advmod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 er	compound
12	trute	trute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 er	amod
13	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dem	nmod
14	de	de	ADP	_	15 ting	case
15	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 er	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bex	punct
17	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 berry	compound
18	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bex	compound
19	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 er	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bemean	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 leff	det
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leff	punct
23	befo	befo	ADP	_	25 leff	case
24	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leff	compound
25	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bemean	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dem	punct
27	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leff	conj
28	bemean	bemean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stonish	conj
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sich	compound
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Buh	flat
31	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bemean	obj
32	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 shame	amod
33	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eh	compound
34	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shame	compound
35	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shame	compound
36	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 show	nsubj
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	38 show	discourse
38	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bemean	parataxis
39	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 show	obj
40	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	38 show	obj
41	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	40 een	flat
42	settlement	settlement	X	Foreign=Yes	40 een	flat:foreign
43	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	46 days	discourse
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 days	amod
45	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 days	compound
46	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 een	appos
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stonish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stonish	present	De people	a wen dem de trute er de ting and berry bex	all property	tree rules
2	bemean	infinitive	a dem leff and dem	Buh sich		tree rules
3	show	infinitive	er eh bin shame	ehself		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient een=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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 145