Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 116

Den de blessed Jesus mek de good Lord sensible dat dis duh Jupter wuh him hab sabe, an dat eh fetch um fuh show um eh seat wuh eh done prepare fur um.

Who acts: Den, Lord · What happens: bless, dis, sabe, show, do, prepare · To what, where: Jesus mek, um eh seat, fur um

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 (Den, Lord), 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 blessed	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mek	compound
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 blessed	obj
6	de	de	ADV	_	3 blessed	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dis	amod
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dis	nsubj
9	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dis	amod
10	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dis	compound
11	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blessed	obl
12	duh	duh	INTJ	_	13 Jupter	discourse
13	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dis	appos
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	17 sabe	discourse
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sabe	nsubj
16	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sabe	nsubj
17	sabe	sabe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blessed	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 um	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 um	det
20	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 um	amod
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
22	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blessed	parataxis
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	25 show	discourse
25	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 um	parataxis
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seat	compound
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seat	amod
28	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	obj
29	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	28 seat	discourse
30	eh	eh	ADV	_	31 done	advmod
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seat	acl:relcl
32	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	xcomp
33	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 um	compound
34	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prepare	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bless	past	Den	Jesus mek	a dat eh fetch um parataxis	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mek=Theme
2	dis		Lord		Jupter appos	tree rules
3	sabe	infinitive	Lord		hab nsubj	tree rules
4	show	infinitive		um eh seat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seat=Recipient
5	do	participle		um eh seat not said here		tree rules
6	prepare	infinitive		fur um		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 116