Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

Wen de Dog come back, eh stuff de moss een de holler, an eh pit fire ter um, an eh mek er hebby smoke; but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout Buh Rabbit.

Who acts: Wen, de moss, cant · What happens: come back, holler, see · To what, where: ner

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 (Wen, de moss, cant), 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	4 come	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holler	punct
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 holler	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 de	compound
9	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moss	compound
10	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holler	nsubj
11	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 moss	flat
12	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holler	compound
13	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fire	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fire	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fire	amod
17	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	compound
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holler	appos
19	ter	ter	X	_	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mek	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mek	det
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mek	amod
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 um	appos
25	er	er	X	_	24 mek	flat:foreign
26	hebby	hebby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smoke	amod
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 er	flat
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
30	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cant	det
31	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
33	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
34	yeddy	yeddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bout	amod
35	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bout	compound
36	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ner	appos
37	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 bout	appos
38	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Buh	flat
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	infinitive	Wen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	holler speech: other		de moss		a eh pit fire and ter um appos	tree rules
3	see	infinitive	eh cant	ner		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ner=Stimulus

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 62