Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

Me sho say you an you fambly bin come back fuh tek anarruh tun long de meat.”

Who acts: Me, you, fuh tek anarruh · What happens: say, come back, tun · To what, where: you, long de meat · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, you, fuh tek anarruh), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	sho	sho	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	obj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 come	det
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
7	fambly	fambly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bin	amod
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 anarruh	amod
12	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anarruh	compound
13	anarruh	anarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tun	nsubj
14	tun	tun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	parataxis
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 meat	amod
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 meat	compound
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tun	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert		Me	you		tree rules
2	come back	present	you		fambly bin nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tun	present	fuh tek anarruh	long de meat		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 12, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 17