Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 112

Den eh pit eh han onder me arm, an eh cahr me way up eenter de element, beyant de sun an de moon an de star, an de leely angel duh foller we.

Who acts: beyant sun · What happens: foller · To what, where: we, cahr way

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 (beyant sun), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pit	compound
2	eh	eh	PROPN	_	1 Den	list
3	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 han	compound
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 han	amod
5	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nsubj
6	onder	onder	ADV	_	8 arm	advmod
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 arm	compound
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 han	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cahr	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cahr	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cahr	amod
12	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	compound
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cahr	goeswith
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	up	up	ADV	_	18 element	advmod
16	eenter	eenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 element	compound
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 element	amod
18	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beyant	punct
20	beyant	beyant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sun	compound
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 beyant	flat:foreign
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 foller	nsubj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moon	det
24	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moon	compound
25	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 foller	nsubj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 star	det
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 star	compound
28	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 foller	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 angel	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 angel	det
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 angel	compound
32	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 angel	amod
33	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 foller	compound
34	duh	duh	INTJ	_	35 foller	discourse
35	foller	foller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	conj
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 foller	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foller		beyant sun	we				a de moon nsubj; a de star 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 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 112