Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

Er New Nigger notus say eh Mossa heap er time duh seddown wid eh foot cross, yent duh say nuttne an yent duh do nuttne, wen him haffer wuk all de time.

Who acts: Nigger notus, Mossa, seddown, yent duh · What happens: say, time, cross, do · To what, where: yent, nuttne · 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 (Nigger notus, Mossa, seddown, yent duh), 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	Er	er	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Nigger	amod
3	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 notus	compound
4	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 time	nsubj
8	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
9	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	16 cross	discourse
12	seddown	seddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cross	nsubj
13	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cross	amod
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cross	amod
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cross	compound
16	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 yent	punct
18	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obl
19	duh	duh	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cross	parataxis
21	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 duh	det
23	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 duh	amod
24	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	nsubj
25	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	parataxis
26	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wen	punct
28	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nuttne	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wen	obj
30	haffer	haffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wuk	compound
31	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nuttne	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 time	det
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 time	compound
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nigger notus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	time		Mossa				tree rules
3	cross		seddown				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present		yent		nuttne obj; duh property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuttne=Topic
5	do	present	a yent duh	nuttne and wen seddown and haffer wuk	time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nuttne=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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 3