Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 150

De minnit ole Satan graff eh claw on um eh gone, an you could yeddy um duh fry een de fire same luk fat een me pan yuh.

Who acts: you · What happens: um, fat · To what, where: de, ole graff eh claw

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 (you), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 minnit	compound
2	minnit	minnit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claw	nsubj
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claw	amod
4	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 claw	nsubj
5	graff	graff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claw	compound
6	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claw	amod
7	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 um	case
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claw	nmod
10	eh	eh	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 um	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 um	det
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 um	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 um	aux
16	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claw	parataxis
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 fry	discourse
19	fry	fry	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 um	conj
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fry	flat
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 fat	nsubj:pass
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fat	nsubj
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fat	amod
24	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fat	compound
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fry	conj
26	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 fat	list
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 een	nmod:unmarked
28	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fat	conj
29	yuh	yuh	INTJ	_	28 pan	discourse
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 claw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	um	could	you					fry and same luk fat and pan conj	tree rules
2	fat	passive		de				fire nsubj; een me list; pan conj	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 150

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 150