Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 52

Den de gentlemans ax um how de same ball could er hit de deer een eh hine foot an een eh yez same time.

Who acts: Den · What happens: er, hit · To what, where: hit deer

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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 er	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Den	flat
4	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	compound
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	appos
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 er	advmod
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 er	aux
11	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 deer	amod
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 hit	flat:foreign
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 er	obj
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 eh	nummod
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 deer	conj
17	hine	hine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 foot	amod
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deer	obj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eh	det
20	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eh	amod
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 foot	appos
22	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	21 eh	conj
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yez	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	er	could	Den	hit deer hine foot and een eh				de same ball nsubj	tree rules
2	hit	participle							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 52