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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 140

“Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come, Jupter, I gwine show you way de bad people go.’

Who acts: Arter, de, bad people · What happens: bin, bless, say, come, show, go · To what, where: Master, Jupter, way, you · 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 (Arter, de, bad people), 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

punctnsubjiobjadvclcasecompoundamodoblpunctconjaclobjpunctnsubjpunctpunctccomppunctoblpunctnsubjnsubjparataxisiobjobjadvmodamodnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctroot“PUNCTArterPROPNmePRONbinVERBinADPHebbenPROPNgoodADJwileNOUN,PUNCTdeNOUNblessedVERBMasterPROPN,PUNCThimPRONsayVERB:PUNCT‘PUNCTComeVERB,PUNCTJupterPROPN,PUNCTIPRONgwineNOUNshowVERByouPRONwayNOUNdeADVbadADJpeopleNOUNgoVERB.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_4 binpunct
2ArterArterPROPNNumber=Sing4 binnsubj
3meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 Arteriobj
4binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 sayadvcl
5ininADP_8 wilecase
6HebbenHebbenPROPNNumber=Sing8 wilecompound
7goodgoodADJDegree=Pos8 wileamod
8wilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing4 binobl
9,,PUNCT_10 depunct
10dedeNOUNNumber=Sing8 wileconj
11blessedblessVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 deacl
12MasterMasterPROPNNumber=Sing11 blessedobj
13,,PUNCT_4 binpunct
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 saynsubj
15saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
16::PUNCT_18 Comepunct
17‘'PUNCT_18 Comepunct
18ComecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf15 sayccomp
19,,PUNCT_20 Jupterpunct
20JupterJupterPROPNNumber=Sing18 Comeobl
21,,PUNCT_24 showpunct
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 shownsubj
23gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing24 shownsubj
24showshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 Comeparataxis
25youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs24 showiobj
26waywayNOUNNumber=Sing24 showobj
27dedeADV_28 badadvmod
28badbadADJDegree=Pos29 peopleamod
29peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur30 gonsubj
30gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 wayacl:relcl
31..PUNCT_18 Comepunct
32’'PUNCT_18 Comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bin in a quotepresentArter mewhilevn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2bless in a quoteparticiplede not said hereMastervn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme
3say speech: assert in a quotepresentArtervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4come in a quoteinfinitiveJuptervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5show in a quotepresentArterwayyougwine nsubjvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
6go in a quotepresentbad peopleway not said herevn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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