Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 142

All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an tek dem las look at um.

Who acts: dem las · What happens: look · To what, where: nuss, um, de pon

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 (dem las), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fren	det
2	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fren	amod
3	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pon	nsubj
4	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fren	flat
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 pon	compound
6	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	collec	collec	X	Foreign=Yes	8 roun	flat:foreign
8	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	6 pon	conj
9	um	um	ADP	_	11 eh	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eh	det
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roun	nmod
12	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	8 roun	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nuss	punct
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 nuss	discourse
15	nuss	nuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pon	conj
16	um	um	SCONJ	_	21 look	mark
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 las	det
18	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dem	compound
19	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 las	compound
20	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 look	nsubj
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nuss	acl:relcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 um	case
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a dem las	nuss not said here		um			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nuss=Attribute

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 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 142