Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 145

Wen eh woice biggin fuh fail um, an dist befo eh dead, eh say: “Me fren, who gwine tek me wife wen de breaf leff dis yer body?”

Who acts: Me, fren · What happens: say, fren, tek, dis · To what, where: fuh fail 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, fren), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 um	nsubj
2	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	7 um	nsubj
3	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 biggin	compound
4	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	nsubj
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 um	amod
6	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	compound
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dist	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dist	det
10	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	conj
11	befo	befo	ADP	_	13 dead	case
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	obl:unmarked
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dist	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 say	discourse
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 um	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 fren	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 fren	punct
19	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fren	nsubj
20	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dis	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tek	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 tek	nsubj
23	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tek	amod
24	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fren	nmod
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tek	goeswith
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wen	compound
27	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dis	nsubj
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 wen	flat:foreign
29	breaf	breaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dis	compound
30	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dis	compound
31	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	ccomp
32	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 body	nmod:poss
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dis	conj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 um	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 um	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fren in a quote		Me		tree rules
3	tek in a quote		fren	me goeswith	tree rules
4	dis in a quote		fren	wife wen nsubj; yer's body conj	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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 145