Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 150

Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back ter um one by one from all ober de pon, an een er deep woice: “Yent der me.

Who acts: eh, een · What happens: come back, woice · To what, where: ober 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 (eh, een), 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	Fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	4 eh	discourse
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eh	obl:unmarked
4	eh	eh	X	_	14 come	nsubj
5	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yeddy	amod
6	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eh	flat
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 answer	det
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eh	flat
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 answer	det
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 de	compound
12	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answer	compound
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	ter	ter	ADP	_	17 um	case
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 um	flat
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 one	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	25 pon	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 pon	det
23	ober	ober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pon	amod
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 pon	compound
25	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 woice	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 een	det
28	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 woice	nsubj
29	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 deep	advmod
30	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woice	amod
31	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pon	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Yent	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Yent	punct
34	Yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pon	conj
35	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 Yent	amod
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 der	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	eh some time			all ober de pon and deep woice and Yent		ter um; a de answer nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pon=Initial_Location
2	woice		a een						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 150

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 150