Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 127

“Den de blessed Jesus tell anurruh angel fuh bring me some milk an honey fuh drink.

Who acts: Den, Jesus, you · What happens: bless, tell, bring · To what, where: angel, top dout crack · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Jesus, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 blessed	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blessed	nsubj
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	advcl
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blessed	xcomp
7	anurruh	anurruh	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
8	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 bring	discourse
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 milk	det
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drink	det
15	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drink	compound
16	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drink	amod
17	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bless in a quote	past	Den				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Jesus		angel		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient
3	bring in a quote	imperative	you not said here	top dout crack = crack		some milk obj; a honey fuh drink obj	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 127

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 127