Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 3

De nex time eh see de Ole Man duh comin long de road wid eh waggin an fish, eh leddown dist on de adge er de road, an eh pant same luk eh bin gwine fuh dead.

Who acts: De time eh, pant · What happens: see, gwine · To what, where: long de road

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 time eh, pant), 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	4 eh	compound
2	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eh	compound
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	de	de	ADP	_	8 Man	case
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Man	amod
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
9	duh	duh	INTJ	_	11 long	discourse
10	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 road	amod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 road	compound
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
14	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 waggin	amod
15	eh	eh	X	_	16 waggin	compound
16	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 road	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fish	det
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waggin	nmod:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dist	punct
20	eh	eh	INTJ	_	22 dist	discourse
21	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dist	compound
22	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 road	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 adge	case
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 adge	compound
25	adge	adge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dist	nmod
26	er	er	X	_	28 road	compound
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 er	flat:foreign
28	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 adge	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gwine	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gwine	det
31	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gwine	amod
32	pant	pant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gwine	nsubj
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gwine	amod
34	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eh	compound
35	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gwine	compound
36	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gwine	compound
37	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 road	conj
38	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	39 dead	discourse
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gwine	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	De time eh	long de road and wid eh waggin a fish and leddown dist on de adge and er road and a eh same eh bin gwine				de Ole Man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
2	gwine		pant						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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 3