Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 105

Dem look pon topper me so kind, an dey open an shet dem wing, an mek sich a cool breeze een de house.

Who acts: Dem, dey, mek sich · What happens: look, open, house · To what, where: pon topper, dem wing

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 (Dem, dey, mek sich), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 topper	compound
4	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 look	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dey	det
10	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	nsubj
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wing	det
13	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dem	compound
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wing	compound
15	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sich	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sich	det
18	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sich	compound
19	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	nsubj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 breeze	det
21	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 breeze	amod
22	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	nsubj
23	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 breeze	flat
24	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	compound
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Dem	pon topper	me obl; kind property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme topper=Attribute
2	open	infinitive	a dey	a dem wing		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	house		a mek sich		a cool breeze nsubj	tree rules

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 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 105