Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

At lenk dem all two so outdone dem bleege fuh drap der groun an try fuh ketch dem win.

Who acts: two, ketch dem · What happens: outdo, drap, win · To what, where: der groun, lenk dem

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 (two, ketch dem), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 dem	case
2	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dem	compound
3	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drap	obl
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 drap	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 outdone	advmod
7	outdone	outdo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bleege	amod
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bleege	compound
9	bleege	bleege	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 two	conj
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 drap	discourse
11	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 groun	amod
13	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drap	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 try	det
15	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drap	obj
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	19 win	discourse
17	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dem	compound
18	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 win	nsubj
19	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 drap	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 drap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	outdo	participle					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	drap	infinitive	two and outdone dem bleege	der groun	lenk dem	a try obj	tree rules
3	win	present	ketch dem				vn succeed-74-2 «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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 41