Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 101

Wile me duh wonder wudduh dat, four leely angel, wuh dress een wite an hab wing on eh back, fly een de room.

Who acts: you, een · What happens: wile, wonder, dress, wite, fly · To what, where: me, dat, hab wing, eh, een room

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 (you, een), 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	Wile	wile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Wile	obj
3	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 wonder	discourse
4	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wile	conj
5	wudduh	wudduh	INTJ	_	6 dat	discourse
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wonder	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 angel	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 angel	nummod
9	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 angel	amod
10	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dress	punct
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 dress	discourse
13	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wile	conj
14	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 wite	nsubj
15	wite	wite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dress	xcomp
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wing	det
17	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wing	compound
18	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wite	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 eh	case
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wite	obl
21	back	back	ADV	_	15 wite	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fly	punct
23	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 dress	conj
24	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	26 room	amod
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 een	flat
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fly	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wile	imperative	you not said here	me		tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	dat and four leely angel		tree rules
3	dress	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	wite	infinitive	een	a hab wing	eh	tree rules
5	fly	infinitive	you not said here	een room		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=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 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 101