Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 111

Me ole cloze an me ole body leff behine, an somehow narruh me sperit, him keep de shape er de body.

Who acts: de · What happens: keep · To what, where: Me ole cloze

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 (de), 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	me	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloze	amod
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloze	amod
3	cloze	cloze	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 me	det
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cloze	conj
6	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 behine	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leff	compound
8	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 behine	compound
9	behine	behine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloze	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sperit	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sperit	det
12	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	15 sperit	advmod
13	narruh	narruh	INTJ	_	15 sperit	discourse
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sperit	compound
15	sperit	sperit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloze	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 er	amod
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	compound
21	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 body	compound
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 body	compound
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	de	Me ole cloze me and ole leff behine and a me sperit				er de body obj	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 111