Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 23

Dest es I cross de causeway an rise de hill by Shannul ole buryin-groun me see Miley,--wuh bin dead de year arter freedom,--duh lean genst one oak tree sider de road.

Who acts: Dest es, ole, bin · What happens: cross, groun, see, freedom, lean · To what, where: causeway, me, Miley, one tree sider

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 (Dest es, ole, bin), 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	Dest	d	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 es	amod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
4	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 causeway	det
6	causeway	causeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hill	det
8	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 de	compound
9	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hill	compound
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obl
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 groun	mark
12	Shannul	shannul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 groun	reparandum
13	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 groun	nsubj
14	buryin	buryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 groun	nsubj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 buryin	punct
16	groun	groun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 groun	obj
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 groun	xcomp
19	Miley	Miley	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 freedom	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 wuh	punct
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	28 freedom	discourse
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 freedom	nsubj
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 freedom	amod
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 freedom	compound
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arter	compound
27	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 freedom	compound
28	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 groun	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lean	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 lean	punct
31	duh	duh	INTJ	_	32 lean	discourse
32	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 freedom	conj
33	genst	gen	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 lean	xcomp
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 sider	nummod
35	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tree	compound
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sider	compound
37	sider	sider	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lean	obl:unmarked
38	de	de	ADP	_	39 road	case
39	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lean	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	present	Dest es	de causeway	a de hill obl; I nsubj	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent causeway=Patient
2	groun	infinitive	ole	me	buryin nsubj	tree rules
3	see	infinitive	ole not said here	Miley		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miley=Stimulus
4	freedom		bin			tree rules
5	lean	infinitive	bin not said here	one tree sider	de road; gen property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 23

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 23