Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 26

Den eh beat um ter det, an eh tek um up an eh trow um een eh waggin, an eh dribe home.

Who acts: Den, um ter det · What happens: beat, det, trow · To what, where: een eh waggin

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 (Den, um ter det), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 det	nsubj
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	3 beat	discourse
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	parataxis
4	um	um	X	_	6 det	compound
5	ter	ter	X	_	6 det	compound
6	det	det	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trow	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tek	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tek	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tek	amod
10	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 det	appos
11	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 tek	nmod:unmarked
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 tek	compound
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eh	det
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trow	nsubj
15	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	15 trow	dep
17	een	een	X	_	19 waggin	compound
18	eh	eh	X	_	19 waggin	compound
19	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trow	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dribe	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dribe	det
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dribe	amod
23	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waggin	appos
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 dribe	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 trow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	infinitive				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	det		Den		a eh tek um appos	tree rules
3	trow	infinitive	um ter det	een eh waggin	a eh nsubj	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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 26