Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 25

Steader dat, an befo eh fine out, de Ole Man knock um een de head wid de butt er eh whip an stunted um.

Who acts: Steader dat · What happens: knock, stunt · To what, where: um

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 (Steader dat), 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	Steader	Steader	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 befo	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 befo	det
5	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	conj
6	eh	eh	ADV	_	7 fine	advmod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 befo	amod
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 fine	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knock	punct
10	de	de	ADP	_	13 knock	mark
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Man	amod
12	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	nsubj
13	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	13 knock	obj
15	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	17 head	amod
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 een	flat
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	obj
18	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 butt	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 butt	compound
20	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	obj
21	er	er	X	_	23 whip	compound
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whip	amod
23	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	parataxis
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 um	det
25	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 um	amod
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whip	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	infinitive	Steader dat and a befo	um				Ole Man nsubj; een head obj; wid de butt obj; er eh whip parataxis	tree rules
2	stunt	participle							tree rules

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 25