Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 113

Me kin walk long um der road, talk ter um een de bush, see dem een me bed, and yeddy um een de grabe yad.

Who acts: Me · What happens: walk, talk, see · To what, where: um der road, dem me bed

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	kin	kin	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 road	advmod
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 road	compound
6	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 road	amod
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
10	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	14 bush	amod
11	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	10 ter	flat:foreign
12	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	10 ter	conj
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 een	flat
14	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
17	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bed	compound
18	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 dem	flat
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bed	compound
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 um	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 um	cc
23	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	compound
24	um	um	ADV	Typo=Yes	3 walk	obl
25	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	24 um	flat
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 een	flat
27	grabe	grabe	X	Foreign=Yes	25 een	flat:foreign
28	yad	yad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	flat
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk		Me	um der road	ter bush obl:unmarked	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory
2	talk	infinitive	Me not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	infinitive	Me not said here	dem me bed		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus

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 13, sentence 113

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 113