Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

De Goose holler, an manage fuh sail way een de element, but eh leff eh fedder een de Dog mouf.

What happens: manage · To what, where: De holler

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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 holler	compound
2	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 manage	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 holler	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 manage	det
6	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
8	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	compound
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 manage	obj
10	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 way	flat
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 element	compound
12	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eh	cc
15	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 leff	det
16	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	X	_	6 manage	obj
18	fedder	fedder	X	_	17 eh	goeswith
19	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fedder	flat
20	de	de	ADP	_	22 mouf	case
21	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mouf	compound
22	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	present		De holler				fuh sail way and de element obj	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 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 68