Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 27

Wen eh git day eh call eh wife an eh show um de tief wuh bin tek eh fish.

What happens: call · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	1 Wen	discourse
3	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl:unmarked
5	eh	eh	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 um	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 um	amod
11	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 um	compound
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	xcomp
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 um	flat:foreign
14	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fish	amod
15	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	19 fish	discourse
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tek	compound
17	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	compound
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 um	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present			eh wife		day	a eh show um and tief eh fish xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 27