Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 26

Eh tek eh fiddle an eh gone ter de ribber bank, an eh play er funny chune, an eh sing er funny song.

Who acts: Eh tek eh, ter, eh play, eh sing · What happens: fiddle, go, bank, chune, song · To what, where: eh

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 tek eh, ter, eh play, eh sing), 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	3 eh	compound
2	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eh	compound
3	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fiddle	nsubj
4	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eh	det
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fiddle	obj
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 eh	acl
8	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	11 bank	nsubj
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 ter	flat:foreign
10	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bank	compound
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chune	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 play	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 play	amod
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chune	nsubj
16	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 funny	advmod
17	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chune	amod
18	chune	chune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 song	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sing	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sing	amod
22	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 song	nsubj
23	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 funny	advmod
24	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 song	amod
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chune	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fiddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fiddle	infinitive	Eh tek eh	a eh	tree rules
2	go	participle		a eh not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bank		ter		tree rules
4	chune		a eh play		tree rules
5	song		a eh sing		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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 26