Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 78

Den eh onlatch de shedroom do an gone een fuh cut de troat er Buh Goat an eh wife.

Who acts: Den eh onlatch · What happens: do, cut, troat · To what, where: gone een fuh

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 eh onlatch), 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 onlatch	compound
2	eh	eh	X	_	3 onlatch	compound
3	onlatch	onlatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 shedroom	case
5	shedroom	shedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 onlatch	nmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fuh	det
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fuh	amod
9	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fuh	amod
10	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fuh	acl
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 cut	flat:foreign
13	troat	troat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cut	xcomp
14	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 troat	advmod
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 er	conj
16	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	flat
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wife	compound
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Buh	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	Den eh onlatch de shedroom	a gone een fuh	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuh=Eventuality
2	cut	participle		a gone een fuh not said here	tree rules
3	troat	infinitive			tree rules

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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 78