Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 146

Fas as de tarruh debble bring sinner ter um, eh push um wid eh pitchfork an eh trow um een de fire.

Who acts: Fas, wid eh pitchfork · What happens: bring, push, trow · To what, where: sinner, um, een fire

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 (Fas, wid eh pitchfork), 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	Fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 de	case
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Fas	nmod
4	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	_	6 bring	discourse
5	debble	debble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
8	ter	ter	ADP	_	9 um	case
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 push	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 push	discourse
12	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bring	parataxis
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obj
14	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pitchfork	amod
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pitchfork	compound
16	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trow	nsubj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eh	det
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trow	nsubj
19	trow	trow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 push	parataxis
20	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	19 trow	dep
21	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	23 fire	amod
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 een	flat
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trow	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	infinitive	Fas as de	sinner	ter um; debble nsubj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sinner=Theme
2	push	infinitive		um		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
3	trow	infinitive	wid eh pitchfork	een fire	a eh nsubj	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 146

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 146