Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

Dem gone een de paster an pick out one fat yearlin, an run um down, an ketch um, an cut eh troat.

Who acts: Dem, cut eh · What happens: go out, run down, troat · To what, where: een paster, um, ketch 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 (Dem, cut eh), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gone	nsubj
2	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	5 paster	amod
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 een	flat
5	paster	paster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pick	det
7	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	2 gone	compound:prt
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 yearlin	nummod
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 yearlin	amod
11	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 run	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 run	det
14	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gone	conj
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	obj
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 um	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
19	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eh	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 eh	det
23	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eh	amod
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 troat	nsubj
25	troat	troat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 um	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	participle	Dem	een paster	a pick obl; one fat yearlin obl	tree rules
2	run down	present	Dem not said here	um	a ketch um parataxis; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Trajectory
3	troat	infinitive	a cut eh	a ketch um not said here		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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 35