Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 36

Den de man draw eh fiddle an eh bow outer de bag, an biggin fuh play wid all eh strenk.

Who acts: Den man, biggin · What happens: draw, play · To what, where: eh fiddle

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 (Den man, biggin), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	nsubj
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fiddle	amod
6	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bow	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bow	amod
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
10	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bag	amod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 bag	compound
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bow	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 biggin	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 biggin	det
15	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bow	conj
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 play	discourse
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 biggin	acl
18	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 play	xcomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 strenk	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 strenk	amod
21	strenk	strenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wid	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	infinitive	Den man	eh fiddle				a eh bow and outer de bag and a biggin obj	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Beneficiary bow=Result
2	play	infinitive	a biggin not said here					wid property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 36