Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 43

Wen de Fiddler notus how complete dem outdone, eh slip down de tree, an tek eh foot een eh han, an lean fuh de place way eh bin gwine.

Who acts: Wen · What happens: outdo, slip down · To what, where: complete dem, de tree

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 (Wen), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slip	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	list
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 complete	advmod
6	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dem	amod
7	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	conj
8	outdone	outdo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dem	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wen	punct
10	eh	eh	INTJ	_	11 slip	discourse
11	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 slip	compound:prt
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slip	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foot	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 foot	det
17	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foot	compound
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	conj
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 foot	list
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 han	amod
22	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 een	nmod:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fuh	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fuh	det
25	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fuh	amod
26	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	conj
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 fuh	flat:foreign
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 way	compound
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fuh	nmod:unmarked
30	eh	eh	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 way	flat
31	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gwine	compound
32	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eh	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 slip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outdo	participle		complete dem not said here					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	slip down	infinitive	Wen notus and complete dem	de tree and a eh foot and a lean fuh place way					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tree=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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 43