Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 100

How long me bin ter sleep me dunno, but all ob er sutten pear like ebry shingle an boad hab er crack, an de light stream tru, an de room bin bright es day.

Who acts: me, ob, de room · What happens: bin, sleep, shingle · To what, where: me, boad hab, bright es

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, ob, de room), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bin	advmod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bin	nsubj
4	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ter	ter	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bin	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sleep	obj
8	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shingle	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 shingle	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 ob	det
12	ob	ob	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shingle	nsubj
13	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 sutten	advmod
14	sutten	sutten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pear	amod
15	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ob	appos
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 ebry	case
17	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pear	nmod
18	shingle	shingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hab	det
20	boad	boad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hab	compound
21	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shingle	obj
22	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 crack	nmod:poss
23	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hab	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stream	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stream	det
26	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stream	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stream	compound
28	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hab	conj
29	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	28 stream	dep
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bin	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 room	det
32	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	compound
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bin	nsubj
34	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	conj
35	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 es	amod
36	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bin	obj
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bin	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	me			long property	tree rules
2	sleep	infinitive	me not said here	me		dunno obj	tree rules
3	shingle	present	all ob	a boad hab and a de light stream			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hab=Destination
4	bin	present	a de room	bright es	day		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent e=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 14, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 100