Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 132

Den de blessed Master notus me, an eh say: ‘Dont fret, Jupter; dem speck duh you sin, but now dem all leff behine.’

Who acts: Den, eh, dem, you · What happens: bless, say, speck, sin · To what, where: Master notus, Dont fret, dem · 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, eh, dem, 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	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	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 notus	compound
5	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blessed	obj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 blessed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blessed	parataxis
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fret	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 fret	punct
13	Dont	dont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fret	amod
14	fret	fret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Jupter	punct
16	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fret	appos
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 speck	punct
18	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speck	nsubj
19	speck	speck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
20	duh	duh	INTJ	_	22 sin	discourse
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sin	nsubj
22	sin	sin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speck	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dem	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 dem	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 dem	advmod
26	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speck	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 behine	det
28	leff	leff	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 behine	compound
29	behine	behine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dem	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blessed	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bless	past	Den	Master notus	me obj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh	Dont fret		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fret=Topic
3	speck	infinitive	dem	dem		tree rules
4	sin	present	you			vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 132