Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 23

De Ole Man shum, an eh light offer eh waggin an run up ter um wid eh big whip een eh han.

What happens: run up · To what, where: Ole Man shum

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	4 shum	compound
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shum	compound
4	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 light	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shum	appos
9	offer	offer	X	_	8 light	acl
10	eh	eh	X	_	9 offer	goeswith
11	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offer	flat
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 run	det
13	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 run	compound:prt
15	ter	ter	ADP	_	16 um	case
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	obl
17	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whip	amod
18	eh	eh	ADV	_	19 big	advmod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whip	amod
20	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 han	compound
21	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 whip	flat
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 han	compound
23	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	present		Ole Man shum				ter um; whip eh han parataxis	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 23