Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 79

Bes plan fuh er man fuh mek sho er eh bittle befo eh say tenky fuh um.

Who acts: Bes, mek sho · What happens: plan, say · To what, where: man, tenky fuh um · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bes, mek sho), 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	Bes	be	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plan	nsubj
2	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	2 plan	discourse
4	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 man	nmod:poss
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plan	obj
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 sho	discourse
7	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sho	compound
8	sho	sho	NOUN	_	14 say	nsubj
9	er	er	ADV	Typo=Yes	11 bittle	advmod
10	eh	eh	X	_	9 er	goeswith
11	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sho	amod
12	befo	befo	ADP	_	13 eh	case
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bittle	obl
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 plan	parataxis
15	tenky	tenky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 um	amod
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plan	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	present	Bes	er's man					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	mek sho	tenky fuh um					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic

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 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 79