Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 67

Eh so bex eh cuss de Goose fuh er fool, an eh tun on um fuh stroy um.

What happens: stroy · To what, where: um, fool

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: 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	10 fool	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 Goose	advmod
3	bex	bex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Goose	nmod:desc
4	eh	eh	ADP	_	5 cuss	case
5	cuss	cuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bex	nmod
6	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Goose	compound
7	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	nmod
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 fool	discourse
9	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fool	nmod:poss
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tun	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tun	det
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tun	amod
14	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fool	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 um	case
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tun	nmod
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 stroy	discourse
18	stroy	stroy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 fool	parataxis
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroy	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroy	infinitive		um					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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 67