Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 53

De Nigger cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Gentlemans, me spec wen Mossa fire pon topper um, de deer mus be bin er bresh fly offer eh yez wid eh hine foot.”

Who acts: De, Gentlemans, yez · What happens: head, wen, fly offer, foot

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 (De, Gentlemans, yez), 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	5 head	nsubj
2	Nigger	Nigger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	cratch	cratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	compound
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fly	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	appos
10	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answer	amod
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Gentlemans	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Gentlemans	punct
14	Gentlemans	Gentleman	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 fly	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wen	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wen	nsubj
17	spec	spec	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wen	amod
18	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Gentlemans	conj
19	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wen	appos
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pon	compound
21	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
22	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wen	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mus	punct
25	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deer	compound
26	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mus	compound
27	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	conj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 er	cop
29	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 er	compound
30	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	18 wen	appos
31	bresh	bresh	X	_	30 er	goeswith
32	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	offer	offer	ADP	_	32 fly	compound:prt
34	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 foot	amod
35	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	39 foot	nsubj
36	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 foot	amod
37	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	39 foot	dep
38	hine	hine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 foot	amod
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fly	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 fly	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	head		De	a den eh and mek answer appos	tree rules
2	wen in a quote		De	Mossa appos; pon topper um and deer mus appos	tree rules
3	fly offer in a quote	present	Gentlemans and spec wen		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	foot in a quote		yez		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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 53