Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 125

Eh look pootier den dat big rockin chair wuh ole Mossa bin gib Missy wen eh marry you farruh.

Who acts: you, pootier den dat, Missy wen · What happens: look, gib, marry · To what, where: you

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 (you, pootier den dat, Missy wen), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 look	discourse
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pootier	pooty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 dat	amod
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	compound
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gib	nsubj
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chair	amod
7	rockin	rockin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chair	compound
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gib	nsubj
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 gib	discourse
10	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bin	amod
11	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bin	compound
12	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gib	nsubj
13	gib	gib	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	parataxis
14	Missy	Missy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wen	compound
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marry	nsubj
16	eh	eh	INTJ	_	17 marry	discourse
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gib	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 marry	obj
19	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	17 marry	discourse
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	gib	infinitive	pootier den dat		big rockin chair nsubj; ole Mossa bin nsubj	tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	Missy wen	you		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 125

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 125