Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 84

Eh sarche eh fiel, an eh see Buh Wolf track day, an eh mek up eh mine say him bin er de one wuh duh tief eh sheep.

Who acts: Eh eh fiel, mine · What happens: see, mek up, say, bin · To what, where: eh, one · 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 (Eh eh fiel, mine), 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	4 fiel	compound
2	sarche	sarche	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Eh	dep
3	eh	eh	X	_	4 fiel	compound
4	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eh	det
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Buh	flat
11	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	appos
16	mek	mek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 mek	compound:prt
18	eh	eh	ADV	_	16 mek	advmod
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	obj
22	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 say	xcomp
23	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 bin	advmod
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 bin	flat:foreign
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bin	obl:unmarked
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	30 sheep	discourse
27	duh	duh	INTJ	_	30 sheep	discourse
28	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sheep	amod
29	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sheep	compound
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	Eh eh fiel		day	a eh nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	mek up	infinitive	Eh eh fiel not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	mine	eh			tree rules
4	bin	infinitive	mine not said here	one tief eh sheep			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 84