Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 41

Wen him show de King wuh him bring, de King gree say Buh Rabbit head er all dem wuh bin er cote him Darter, an eh gen um de gal, an dem bin hab er hebby weddin.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: show, bring, gree, say, cote · To what, where: de, Buh Rabbit head, arter · 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 (Wen), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 show	nsubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wen	flat
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 de	flat
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	8 bring	discourse
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	nsubj
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 show	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gree	punct
10	de	de	ADP	_	11 King	case
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gree	obl
12	gree	gree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	conj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gree	ccomp
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 head	compound
15	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	compound
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
17	er	er	ADV	_	19 dem	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 dem	det
19	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	21 bin	discourse
21	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dem	appos
22	er	er	PART	_	23 cote	mark
23	cote	cote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cote	obj
25	Darter	Darter	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cote	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 um	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 um	det
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 um	amod
29	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	compound
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Darter	appos
31	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 gal	nmod:poss
32	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hab	punct
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hab	det
35	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bin	compound
36	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hab	compound
37	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Darter	appos
38	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	37 hab	appos
39	hebby	hebby	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 weddin	compound
40	weddin	weddin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 er	flat
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Wen	de		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent de=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring	infinitive	wen			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	gree	present	wen not said here		de King	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	wen not said here	Buh Rabbit head	all dem obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme dem=Manner
5	cote	infinitive	wen not said here	arter	Darter obj	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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 41