Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 25

Me gone up ter um an me try fuh pass de time er day wid um, fuh me yent bin see um sence dat rainy ebenin wen we bury um in Shannul.

Who acts: gone ter, yent bin, we · What happens: go up, try, pass, see, bury · To what, where: me, de, um sence, um, Shannul

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 (gone ter, yent bin, we), 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	Me	me	ADV	_	2 gone	advmod
2	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ter	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gone	compound:prt
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	nsubj
5	um	um	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 me	det
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 um	conj
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 pass	discourse
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 pass	obl
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obj
13	er	er	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	conj
15	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fuh	punct
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 try	discourse
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 try	obj
20	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bin	amod
21	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 try	parataxis
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sence	compound
24	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	dat	dat	ADP	_	28 wen	case
26	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wen	amod
27	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wen	compound
28	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bury	obl
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bury	nsubj
30	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	parataxis
31	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bury	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Shannul	case
33	Shannul	Shannul	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bury	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	participle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	try	infinitive	gone ter	me			um me nsubj	tree rules
3	pass not said to happen	infinitive	gone ter not said here	de		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	present	yent bin	um sence				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sence=Stimulus
5	bury	present	we	um	Shannul		dat rainy ebenin wen	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent um=Theme in shannul=Destination

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 25