Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 114

Dis es we git ter de big gate, wuh mek wid pearl, eh swing open dout tetch um, an de blessed Jesus lead dis poor ole nigger up de shinin pate to de big house way de Lord lib.

Who acts: Dis es, git, Jesus, dis · What happens: git, bless, lea up, nigger

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 (Dis es, git, Jesus, dis), 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	Dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 es	compound
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 git	nsubj
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 git	nsubj
4	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blessed	nsubj
5	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	4 git	conj
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ter	flat:foreign
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gate	amod
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pearl	punct
10	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 pearl	discourse
11	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pearl	compound
12	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pearl	amod
13	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 git	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swing	punct
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 swing	amod
16	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pearl	appos
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
18	dout	dout	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tetch	compound
19	tetch	tetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swing	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 de	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 de	det
23	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 git	conj
24	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lead	nsubj
26	lead	lea	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 blessed	ccomp
27	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nigger	nsubj
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nigger	amod
29	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nigger	amod
30	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lead	ccomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	26 lead	compound:prt
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 pate	compound
33	shinin	shinin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pate	compound
34	pate	pate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lead	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 way	case
36	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	39 way	nsubj
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 way	amod
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 way	compound
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pate	nmod
40	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 way	appos
41	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 de	flat
42	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 de	flat
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	git		Dis es	we nsubj; mek wid pearl conj; a de conj	tree rules
2	bless	past	git and mek wid pearl and a de		tree rules
3	lea up	past	Jesus	de shinin pate to big house way parataxis	tree rules
4	nigger		dis		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 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 114