Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 138

Ole Mossa, Cappne Maxwell, ole Mr. Ashmore, Buh Jack, Sister Masha, me own Dinah, an mo bin day, an dem all hab harp, an bin der sing, an walk bout, an der pledjur ehself.

What happens: walk · To what, where: bout, Ole

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: 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	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Cappne	punct
4	Cappne	Cappne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	conj
5	Maxwell	Maxwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cappne	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Ashmore	punct
7	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Ashmore	amod
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ashmore	nmod:desc
9	Ashmore	Ashmore	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Jack	punct
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Jack	compound
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ashmore	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sister	punct
14	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ashmore	conj
15	Masha	Masha	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sister	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Dinah	punct
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Dinah	nsubj
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Dinah	amod
19	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 day	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 day	det
22	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bin	compound
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	compound
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Dinah	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dem	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dem	det
27	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Dinah	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 harp	det
29	hab	hab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 harp	amod
30	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Dinah	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bin	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bin	det
33	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	appos
34	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 sing	amod
35	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bin	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 walk	punct
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 walk	det
38	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ole	conj
39	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 walk	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pledjur	punct
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pledjur	det
42	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 pledjur	amod
43	pledjur	pledjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ole	appos
44	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	43 pledjur	nmod:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present		bout					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bout=Trajectory

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 138

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 138