Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 17

De Buckra man bleege fuh laugh, an eh yent do nuttne ter de New Nigger case eh glec eh wuk.

What happens: do · To what, where: De man bleege

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: 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bleege	compound
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bleege	compound
4	bleege	bleege	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 laugh	amod
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bleege	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 yent	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 yent	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yent	amod
10	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	nuttne	nuttne	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ter	flat:foreign
13	ter	ter	X	_	21 wuk	compound
14	de	de	ADP	_	17 case	case
15	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Nigger	amod
16	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 case	compound
17	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ter	nmod
18	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ter	flat:foreign
19	glec	glec	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ter	flat
20	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ter	flat:foreign
21	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		De man bleege and fuh laugh				a eh yent obl; ter wuk obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuk=Eventuality

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 17