Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 109

Me harte rise up een me troat, an me yent duh say nuttne, but me duh watch fur de Lord.

Who acts: Me, me yent · What happens: rise up, troat, say, watch · To what, where: een, nuttne, fur · 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, me yent), 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	3 rise	nsubj
2	harte	harte	X	Foreign=Yes	3 rise	dep
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rise	compound:prt
5	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rise	obl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 een	nmod:unmarked
7	troat	troat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rise	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 yent	det
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 yent	compound
11	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
12	duh	duh	INTJ	_	13 say	discourse
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rise	conj
14	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watch	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 watch	cc
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 watch	nsubj
18	duh	duh	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 watch	aux
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	parataxis
20	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watch	obj
21	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fur	appos
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 de	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rise up	infinitive	Me	een me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	troat	infinitive	Me not said here		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	a me yent	nuttne	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nuttne=Topic
4	watch		me	fur	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=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 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 109