Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 104

Me see heap er pooty wite chillun een me time, but me nebber bin see nuttne teh come up ter dem, nur ter ketch nigh um.

Who acts: Me, pooty, nuttne teh · What happens: see, wite, come up · 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 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, pooty, nuttne teh), 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	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 er	compound
4	er	er	PUNCT	_	6 wite	punct
5	pooty	pooty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wite	nsubj
6	wite	wite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp
7	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
8	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chillun	flat
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 chillun	flat
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wite	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
14	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bin	compound
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
17	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teh	compound
18	teh	teh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 come	compound:prt
21	ter	ter	ADP	_	22 dem	case
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ketch	punct
24	nur	nur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ter	compound
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ketch	compound
26	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dem	appos
27	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	28 um	advmod
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ketch	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wite	infinitive	pooty	time	heap compound	tree rules
3	see	infinitive	me		nebber bin nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come up	present	nuttne teh		ter dem	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 104