Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 42

Soon es eh done eat um, eh cry out an eh say eh hab pain er belly, an eh double ehself all up, an eh roll eh yeye, an eh waller all long de groun, an eh mek all sorter curous motion an noise.

Who acts: hab · What happens: do, eat, cry out, say, belly · To what, where: Soon es, um, eh · 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: who acts (hab), 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	Soon	soon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 es	amod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	eh	eh	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	xcomp
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cry	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 cry	discourse
9	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 done	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 cry	compound:prt
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	obj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 cry	conj
14	eh	eh	INTJ	_	18 belly	discourse
15	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belly	nsubj
16	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belly	compound
17	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belly	compound
18	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eh	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eh	det
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belly	conj
22	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 belly	amod
23	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 double	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 ehself	det
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 ehself	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 yeye	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 yeye	det
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 yeye	amod
29	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	compound
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yeye	compound
31	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belly	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 waller	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 waller	det
34	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 waller	amod
35	waller	waller	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yeye	appos
36	all	all	ADV	_	37 long	advmod
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 groun	amod
38	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	39 groun	compound
39	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 waller	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mek	punct
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mek	det
42	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 mek	amod
43	mek	mek	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yeye	conj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 motion	det
45	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 motion	compound
46	curous	curous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 motion	amod
47	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mek	appos
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 noise	det
49	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 motion	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle · passive		Soon es		tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		um		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient
3	cry out speech: express	infinitive		a eh		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eh=Topic
4	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	belly		hab		a eh conj; a eh eh yeye and a eh mek conj	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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 42