Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 41

Eh tek some salt outer him bag, an eh buil fire, an eh brile some er de yearlin meat on de coals, an eh eat um right befo Buh Wolf.

Who acts: er · What happens: eat · To what, where: right, outer bag

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 (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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tek	compound
2	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	nsubj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 salt	det
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	nsubj
5	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	amod
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 outer	nsubj
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fire	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
11	buil	buil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fire	compound
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brile	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 brile	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brile	amod
16	brile	brile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fire	appos
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 er	det
18	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	nsubj
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 meat	advmod
20	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meat	compound
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 coals	case
23	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coals	amod
24	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 meat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eh	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eh	det
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	conj
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 brile	acl:relcl
29	um	um	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eat	obj
31	befo	befo	ADP	_	33 Wolf	case
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wolf	compound
33	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 right	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bag	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	some er yearlin meat on de coals and a eh	right befo Buh Wolf					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 41