Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 133

“All dis time me bin er set wid me face tun way from de Lord an eh trone, cause eh so great an bright me couldnt look pon topper um.

Who acts: eh, face · What happens: bin, wi, tun, cause, look · To what, where: dis time, eh, way, topper um · 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 (eh, face), 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	_	9 wid	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
3	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wid	obl:unmarked
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bin	nsubj
6	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
7	er	er	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
8	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bin	xcomp
9	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wid	obj
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tun	nsubj
12	tun	tun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wid	ccomp
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tun	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Lord	case
15	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Lord	compound
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tun	obl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 trone	det
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trone	amod
19	trone	trone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Lord	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cause	punct
21	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 tun	parataxis
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cause	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 great	advmod
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eh	amod
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 couldnt	det
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 couldnt	amod
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bright	iobj
28	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 great	obl:unmarked
29	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 cause	conj
30	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 topper	compound
31	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 um	compound
32	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 look	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bin in a quote	present	a eh = eh	all dis time not said here		set property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme
2	wi in a quote	past		a eh = eh	time		tree rules
3	tun in a quote	present	face	way		from de Lord	tree rules
4	cause in a quote	infinitive		eh			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eh=Patient
5	look in a quote	infinitive		topper um			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme um=Attribute

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 133

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 133