Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 52

Wen de noung King git de message, eh tun dis answer: “Tell de ole King say me hab er fat barruh een de pen, an him mus come fur um; but eh musnt come een de day, ner eh musnt come fuh um een de night.”

Who acts: mus, musnt, eh musnt · What happens: tell, say, come, eh · To what, where: de, KING, me, fur um, Wen de message · 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 (mus, musnt, eh musnt), 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	7 message	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	noung	noung	ADP	_	5 git	case
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 git	compound
5	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	nmod
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 message	compound
7	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answer	amod
10	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dis	compound
11	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answer	compound
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 message	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 message	parataxis
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	obj
17	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 King	amod
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	iobj
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Tell	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 say	obj
21	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 er	obl:unmarked
22	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 fat	amod
23	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pen	amod
24	barruh	barruh	INTJ	_	27 pen	discourse
25	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	27 pen	amod
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 een	flat
27	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 him	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 him	det
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Tell	iobj
31	mus	mu	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Tell	ccomp
33	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 um	compound
34	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 eh	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 eh	cc
37	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 message	parataxis
38	musnt	musnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	nsubj
39	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 eh	ccomp
40	een	een	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 day	amod
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	obl:unmarked
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ner	punct
44	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 day	conj
45	eh	eh	X	_	46 musnt	compound
46	musnt	musnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	nsubj
47	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 come	parataxis
48	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	47 come	discourse
49	um	um	X	_	52 night	compound
50	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	49 um	flat:foreign
51	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	49 um	flat:foreign
52	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	obl:unmarked
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		de	KING		ole King iobj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		me			fat een pen obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme pen=Manner
3	come in a quote	present	mus	fur um				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme
4	eh in a quote	past						tree rules
5	come in a quote	present	musnt				een property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come in a quote	present	eh musnt			day; night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 52

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 52