Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

De Buckra man answer: “Wen you see me duh seddown, an you tink me duh lazy, same time me duh wuk long me head, an duh mek plan, an study pon ting.”

Who acts: you, Nigger notus · What happens: see, tink, head · To what, where: Wen, Nigger notus, De man answer

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 (you, Nigger notus), 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 answer	compound
2	Buckra	Buckra	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	compound
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
7	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 see	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	acl:relcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	12 seddown	discourse
12	seddown	seddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tink	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tink	det
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tink	nsubj
16	tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seddown	acl:relcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tink	obj
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 lazy	discourse
19	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tink	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seddown	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 duh	nsubj
24	duh	duh	INTJ	_	22 time	discourse
25	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 duh	appos
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 head	advmod
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 head	nsubj
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wuk	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plan	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 plan	det
31	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plan	amod
32	mek	mek	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plan	compound
33	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wuk	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ting	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ting	det
36	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pon	compound
37	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ting	compound
38	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plan	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 ting	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 ting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	you	Wen	me obj; seddown and same time obj	tree rules
2	tink in a quote	infinitive	you	Nigger notus = notus	lazy property	tree rules
3	head in a quote		Nigger notus = notus		long property	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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 5