Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 144

Satan, him bin day wid eh pitchfork, an eh black head wid screech-owl yez, an eh red yeye, an eh claw-han, an eh forky tail.

Who acts: Satan, eh black head · What happens: bin, owl · To what, where: wid eh pitchfork

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 (Satan, eh black head), 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	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bin	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Satan	punct
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Satan	nmod
4	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obl:unmarked
6	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pitchfork	amod
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pitchfork	amod
8	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 owl	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 owl	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 head	amod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 head	amod
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 owl	nsubj
14	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 owl	amod
15	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 owl	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 screech	punct
17	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitchfork	conj
18	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	17 owl	dep
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yeye	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 yeye	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yeye	amod
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yeye	amod
23	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitchfork	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 han	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 han	det
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 han	amod
27	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 han	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 claw	punct
29	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitchfork	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tail	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tail	det
32	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tail	amod
33	forky	forky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tail	amod
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitchfork	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	present	Satan er	wid eh pitchfork and a wid screech owl and a eh red yeye and a eh claw han and a eh forky tail			day		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitchfork=Theme
2	owl		eh black head						tree rules

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 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 144