Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

Den eh bague de Ole Man fuh tek um up een eh waggin an cahr um long de big road tel eh come ter de place way him fuh tun off fuh gwine ter him house.

Who acts: de · What happens: come · To what, where: de place way, Den eh bague

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 (de), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bague	compound
2	eh	eh	X	_	3 bague	compound
3	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	de	de	ADP	_	6 Man	case
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bague	nmod
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 tek	discourse
8	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bague	conj
9	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 tek	nmod:unmarked
10	up	up	ADP	_	11 een	advmod
11	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 waggin	nummod
12	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 waggin	compound
13	waggin	waggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tek	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
15	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waggin	appos
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 come	nsubj
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eh	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tel	compound
21	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 um	parataxis
24	ter	ter	ADV	_	25 de	advmod
25	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 way	compound
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tun	amod
30	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
31	off	off	ADP	_	32 fuh	case
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	23 come	discourse
33	gwine	gwine	X	Foreign=Yes	32 fuh	dep
34	ter	ter	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gwine	nmod
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gwine	flat:foreign
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bague	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	de	de place way eh				fuh tun obl; big tel eh nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 6

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 6