Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 101

You git way one time, but narruh chance gwine come; an de nex time me git you een me power me yent gwine wait topper nuttne, but me gwine pick you bone right off.”

Who acts: chance gwine, nex time, you, power, me · What happens: come, git, een, nuttne, pick · To what, where: git way, me, bone, you

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance gwine, nex time, you, power), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 way	nsubj
2	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	compound
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 way	appos
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
8	narruh	narruh	INTJ	_	10 gwine	discourse
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gwine	compound
10	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 way	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 git	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 time	dep
15	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	compound
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 git	nsubj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 git	compound
18	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 een	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 een	nsubj
20	een	een	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 way	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 een	obj
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nuttne	nsubj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 power	goeswith
24	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nuttne	amod
25	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nuttne	amod
26	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 topper	compound
27	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nuttne	compound
28	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 een	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pick	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 pick	cc
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 pick	nsubj
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 me	flat
33	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 way	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 pick	obj
35	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pick	obj
36	right	right	ADV	_	37 off	advmod
37	off	off	ADV	_	33 pick	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	chance gwine	git way You not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	git		a nex time				tree rules
3	een	past	you	me			tree rules
4	nuttne		power me				tree rules
5	pick	present	me	bone	you	off property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary bone=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 12, sentence 101

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 101