Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 106
Bimeby me retch out me han fuh tell de one huddy wuh bin tan close me bed on de right side, but eh draw back, an eh say: ‘Jupter, we come fuh leh you know de blessed Jesus duh commin fuh cahr you up ter Hebben an show you de seat wuh eh hab ready fur you.’
Who acts: Bimeby, eh, we, you, de, ter · What happens: retch out, tell, close, draw back, say, come · To what, where: me, right side, Jupter, seat, you · 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 (Bimeby, eh, we, you), 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 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 retch | nsubj |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bimeby | iobj |
| 3 | retch | retch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 retch | compound:prt |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 retch | obj |
| 6 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retch | obl |
| 7 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 8 tell | discourse |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 retch | conj |
| 9 | de | de | ADP | _ | 14 tan | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 tan | nummod |
| 11 | huddy | huddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tan | amod |
| 12 | wuh | wuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bin | compound |
| 13 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tan | compound |
| 14 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obl |
| 15 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 close | obj |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 side | dep |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 draw | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 draw | cc |
| 24 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 draw | det |
| 25 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 draw | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 eh | det |
| 29 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | nsubj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 draw | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Jupter | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Jupter | punct |
| 33 | Jupter | Jupter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 say | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Jupter | acl:relcl |
| 37 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 36 come | discourse |
| 38 | leh | leh | INTJ | _ | 40 know | discourse |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 know | nsubj |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 say | parataxis |
| 41 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 blessed | nsubj |
| 42 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 know | ccomp |
| 43 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 commin | compound |
| 44 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 45 commin | discourse |
| 45 | commin | commin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 cahr | compound |
| 46 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 47 cahr | discourse |
| 47 | cahr | cahr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 you | nmod:desc |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 blessed | parataxis |
| 49 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 blessed | compound:prt |
| 50 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 fur | nsubj |
| 51 | Hebben | Hebben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 ter | appos |
| 52 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 show | det |
| 53 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 fur | nsubj |
| 54 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 de | nsubj |
| 55 | de | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 show | acl:relcl |
| 56 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 de | obj |
| 57 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 61 fur | discourse |
| 58 | eh | eh | X | Foreign=Yes | 61 fur | nsubj |
| 59 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 fur | compound |
| 60 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 fur | amod |
| 61 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 blessed | obl |
| 62 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 fur | obj |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retch | punct |
| 64 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 retch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retch out | infinitive | Bimeby me | me | han obl | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Bimeby me not said here | de one huddy bin tan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | close not said to happen | infinitive | Bimeby me not said here | me | right side | bed obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||
| 4 | draw back | present | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | a eh | Jupter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jupter=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come | present | we | Jupter not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jupter=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | bless up | past | de | you parataxis | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | de | present | you | seat | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | fur | ter | you | a show 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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