Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

Es de ole man bin er pass long eh notus um, an eh stop, an eh gone ter um an eh ax um wuh ail um.

Who acts: Es, er · What happens: de, pass, go · To what, where: ole man bin, long eh, eh

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 (Es, er), 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	Es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 de	nsubj
2	de	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bin	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	compound
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 de	obj
6	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pass	nsubj
7	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 de	parataxis
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eh	amod
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obj
10	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stop	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stop	amod
15	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eh	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eh	det
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	conj
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 eh	acl
20	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	19 gone	flat:foreign
21	um	um	ADP	_	25 um	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 um	det
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 um	amod
24	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 um	compound
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	28 um	discourse
27	ail	ail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 um	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 de	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	de	present	Es	ole man bin		tree rules
2	pass	present	er	long eh notus um and a eh stop and a eh		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eh=Trajectory
3	go	participle		a eh not said here	um a eh ax um	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 4