Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 142

In de fur een me see smoke duh rise, an me yeddy people duh cry an duh holler so bad.

Who acts: me, people · What happens: see, cry · To what, where: smoke duh rise, de fur, duh holler

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 (me, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 fur	case
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 fur	compound
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
4	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fur	flat
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rise	compound
8	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rise	amod
9	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeddy	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 yeddy	det
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 yeddy	compound
13	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rise	appos
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cry	nsubj
15	duh	duh	INTJ	_	16 cry	discourse
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 yeddy	acl:relcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 holler	det
18	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 holler	amod
19	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cry	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 bad	advmod
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cry	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	me	smoke duh rise		de fur			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rise=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	people	a duh holler					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Topic

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 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 142