Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

Eh all fuh ehself; an ef you listne ter him tale, eh gwine cheat you ebry time, an tell de bigges lie dout wink eh yeye.

Who acts: bigges, dout · What happens: lie, wink · To what, where: ef tale, yeye

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 (bigges, dout), 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	INTJ	_	12 tale	discourse
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Eh	vocative
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	2 all	discourse
4	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 all	nmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tale	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ef	det
7	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tale	compound
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 listne	nsubj
9	listne	listne	X	Foreign=Yes	7 ef	conj
10	ter	ter	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ef	nmod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lie	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cheat	punct
14	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 cheat	discourse
15	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cheat	amod
16	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tale	appos
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 time	nmod:poss
18	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cheat	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tell	det
22	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lie	obl
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 tell	flat:foreign
24	bigges	bigge	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lie	nsubj
25	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	dout	dout	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wink	nsubj
27	wink	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lie	conj
28	eh	eh	ADV	_	29 yeye	advmod
29	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wink	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	bigges	ef tale				a tell obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wink	present	dout	yeye					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeye=Patient

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 21