Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 126

Me shame fuh set een de chair, but de blessed Jesus, him courage me, an me tek me seat, an me so tankful dat me hab one chair een de mansion een de sky.

Who acts: Me shame fuh, me · What happens: set, bless, tek · To what, where: een de chair, Jesus, me

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 (Me shame fuh, me), 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 fuh	amod
2	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fuh	compound
3	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blessed	nsubj:outer
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fuh	acl
5	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chair	nummod
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 chair	compound
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blessed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 blessed	cc
10	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 blessed	nsubj
11	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 blessed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 courage	punct
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 courage	compound
15	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blessed	obl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 courage	goeswith
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tek	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tek	det
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tek	nsubj
20	tek	tek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 blessed	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tek	obj
22	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tek	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 me	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 me	det
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 seat	conj
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 tankful	case
27	tankful	tankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hab	amod
28	dat	dat	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tankful	obl
30	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tek	obj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 chair	nummod
32	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tek	parataxis
33	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 chair	flat
34	de	de	ADP	_	35 mansion	case
35	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chair	nmod
36	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 mansion	flat
37	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 sky	compound
38	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mansion	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	participle	Me shame fuh not said here	een de chair		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient chair=Result
2	bless	past	Me shame fuh	Jesus	him courage me obl; de nsubj	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme
3	tek	infinitive	me	me	seat me obj; tankful hab obj; one chair de mansion and de sky parataxis	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 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 126