Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 90

Eh gone an eh heng up eh fiddle, an eh say teh ehself: “Me tought sho me bin hab um, but Rabbit beat my time.”

Who acts: Eh, Rabbit · What happens: go up, say, tought, bin, beat · To what, where: eh heng, hab um · 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 (Eh, Rabbit), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gone	nsubj
2	gone	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heng	det
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heng	compound
5	heng	heng	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 gone	compound:prt
7	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fiddle	det
8	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eh	det
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gone	parataxis
13	teh	teh	ADP	_	14 ehself	case
14	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 tought	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 tought	punct
17	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tought	nsubj
18	tought	tought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gone	conj
19	sho	sho	SCONJ	_	21 bin	mark
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bin	nsubj
21	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tought	advcl
22	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bin	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beat	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 beat	cc
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	nsubj
27	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gone	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 time	nmod:poss
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Eh	a eh heng		eh fiddle obl:unmarked	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient heng=Extent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh			teh ehself	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tought in a quote	past	a eh = eh				tree rules
4	bin in a quote	present	a eh = eh	hab um			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme
5	beat in a quote	past	Rabbit		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 90