Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 3

To Jack’s command that he open it, he responded: “De teet yent duh hot me no mo.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: open, respond, command · To what, where: command · 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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 command	case
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 command	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Jack	case
4	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 responded	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 open	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 open	nsubj
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 command	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 open	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 command	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 responded	nsubj
11	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 yent	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 yent	punct
14	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 teet	compound
15	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yent	compound
16	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 responded	conj
17	duh	duh	INTJ	_	18 hot	discourse
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 me	amod
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 yent	obl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 mo	det
21	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yent	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	infinitive	Jack	command		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	respond speech: other	past	Jack		to Jack's command	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to command=Theme
3	command		Jack			nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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 13, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 13, sentence 3