Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 136

De blessed Jesus tek me tru de gaden, down by de ribber, an een de orchud way de bigges peach, an fig, an orange, an pomegranate, an watermillion, an all kin der fruit der grow.

Who acts: De, Jesus · What happens: bless, tek, grow · To what, where: 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 (De, Jesus), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blessed	nsubj
2	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tek	nsubj
4	tek	tek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blessed	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tek	obj
6	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	4 tek	obj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tru	flat
8	gaden	gaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tru	flat:foreign
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ribber	punct
10	down	down	ADV	_	13 ribber	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 ribber	case
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ribber	amod
13	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blessed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 een	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 een	det
16	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ribber	appos
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 een	flat:foreign
18	orchud	orchud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 een	nmod:unmarked
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 peach	compound
21	bigges	bigge	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 peach	compound
22	peach	peach	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fig	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fig	det
25	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peach	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pomegranate	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pomegranate	det
28	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pomegranate	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pomegranate	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pomegranate	det
31	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peach	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 watermillion	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 watermillion	det
34	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pomegranate	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kin	punct
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 kin	det
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 kin	det
38	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pomegranate	parataxis
39	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 der	amod
40	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 der	compound
41	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kin	conj
42	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blessed	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bless	past	De		by de ribber	tree rules
2	tek	infinitive	Jesus	me		tree rules
3	grow	infinitive	De not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 136