Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 135

Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an all dat time Buh Wolf fambly mose dead long hongry.

Who acts: Eh bin · What happens: bruise up, mose · To what, where: bad eh eh bed, dead

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh bin), 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	2 bin	compound
2	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bruise	nsubj
3	bruise	bruise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 bruise	compound:prt
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
7	eh	eh	X	_	11 bed	compound
8	haffer	haffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tek	compound
9	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	compound
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bed	compound
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bruise	obl
12	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 week	discourse
13	mona	mona	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 week	compound
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 mona	flat
15	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bruise	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mose	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 time	det
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	compound
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mose	obl:unmarked
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 time	appos
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	24 mose	advmod
24	mose	mose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bruise	conj
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mose	obj
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hongry	amod
27	hongry	hongry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dead	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bruise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bruise up	present	Eh bin	bad eh eh bed			week		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	mose	present	Eh bin not said here	dead			time	fambly property	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 11, sentence 135

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 135