Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 2

“Same luk wen dem bin libe, ceptin dem look lucker shadder, an dem walk backwuds, an dem face tun backwud, an de heel teh eh foot day way eh toe orter be.

Who acts: bin libe, dem · What happens: look, walk · To what, where: lucker, backwuds

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 (bin libe, dem), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
2	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 luk	amod
3	luk	luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wen	compound
4	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dem	compound
5	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bin	compound
6	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 libe	compound
7	libe	libe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dem	punct
9	ceptin	ceptin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dem	compound
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 libe	conj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obj
13	shadder	shadd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 look	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walk	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dem	det
16	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	nsubj
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 look	parataxis
18	backwuds	backwud	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walk	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 backwud	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 backwud	det
21	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	compound
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tun	compound
23	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 backwud	compound
24	backwud	backwud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 backwuds	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heel	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heel	det
27	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heel	amod
28	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 backwuds	conj
29	teh	teh	ADP	_	33 way	case
30	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 day	compound
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	compound
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walk	obl
34	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 orter	amod
35	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 orter	compound
36	orter	orter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 way	conj
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 walk	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive	bin libe and ceptin dem	lucker				shadd property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lucker=Attribute
2	walk in a quote	infinitive	a dem	backwuds and a tun backwud and a de heel				teh day way and eh toe orter	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme backwud=Trajectory

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 2

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 2