Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

Arter dat eh gone home, an eh tek de Alligatur yeye teet, an de calabash wuh hab de Deer yeye water een um, an eh light out fuh de King house.

Who acts: Arter · What happens: go

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 (Arter), 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	Arter	Arter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	dat	dat	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	eh	eh	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tek	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tek	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tek	amod
9	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	parataxis
10	de	de	ADP	_	13 teet	case
11	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 teet	compound
12	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teet	compound
13	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tek	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calabash	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 calabash	det
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 calabash	amod
17	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tek	conj
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	19 hab	discourse
19	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calabash	conj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 hab	flat:foreign
21	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 water	compound
22	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 water	compound
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hab	appos
24	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 water	flat
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 water	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 light	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 light	det
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 light	amod
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calabash	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 light	compound:prt
31	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	compound
32	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 King	compound
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 house	compound
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calabash	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Arter					a eh tek de Alligatur yeye teet and a de calabash and hab and a eh light and fuh King house parataxis; home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 40