Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 46

Wen sun down an eh biggin fuh dark, Buh Rabbit gedder him fambly, and dem gone an git de yearlin meat, an dem cahr um home an dem eat um.

Who acts: gedder, dem · What happens: go, eat · To what, where: git, 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 (gedder, dem), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sun	compound
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gedder	nsubj
3	down	down	ADP	_	6 biggin	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 biggin	det
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 biggin	amod
6	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sun	nmod
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 dark	discourse
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 biggin	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gedder	punct
10	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Rabbit	compound
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gedder	nsubj
12	gedder	gedd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 gone	nsubj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gedder	obj
14	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	12 gedder	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
17	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 git	det
20	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	obj
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 meat	advmod
22	yearlin	yearlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meat	compound
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 um	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
26	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cahr	compound
27	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meat	appos
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 um	advmod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dem	det
31	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	nsubj
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 um	parataxis
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle	gedder Wen sun down a eh biggin Buh Rabbit Rabbit	a git				yearlin meat obl; dem nsubj	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location git=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	a dem	um					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 46