Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 130

Eh tell me fuh drink um down, an wen me drink all outer de glass, an me yeye ketch sight er de bottom er de tumbler, me see some speck.

Who acts: you, wen, me · What happens: tell, drink down, drink, sight, see · To what, where: wen, me, um, outer de glass, de bottom, speck · 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 (you, wen, 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 tell	discourse
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	5 drink	discourse
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	xcomp
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 drink	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wen	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wen	det
10	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 drink	nsubj
12	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wen	acl:relcl
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 outer	advmod
14	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 glass	amod
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 glass	compound
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drink	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sight	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sight	det
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sight	nsubj
20	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	compound
21	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	compound
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wen	conj
23	er	er	ADV	_	25 bottom	advmod
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 bottom	compound
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	nmod
26	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	25 bottom	conj
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 er	flat:foreign
28	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 er	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	advcl
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 speck	det
33	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a wen and a yeye ketch sight	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drink down not said to happen	infinitive	a wen and a yeye ketch sight not said here	um		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient
3	drink	present	me	outer de glass		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
4	sight		me	de bottom		tree rules
5	see	present	me	some speck		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus

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 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 130