Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 26

Miley look say eh bin want fuh ax me someting; an den, all ob a sutten, eh check isself, an eh tun roun an mek off fuh de grabe-yad.

Who acts: Miley, eh bin · What happens: look, say, want, ax, somet, check · To what, where: den, me, isself · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Miley, eh 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	Miley	Miley	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	xcomp
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bin	amod
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 ax	discourse
8	ax	ax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ax	obj
10	someting	somet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ax	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 den	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 den	det
13	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ob	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 ob	det
16	ob	ob	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 den	appos
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sutten	det
18	sutten	sutten	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ob	nmod:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 check	punct
20	eh	eh	INTJ	_	21 check	discourse
21	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
22	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 check	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 roun	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 roun	det
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roun	amod
26	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 roun	compound
27	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 check	obl
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mek	det
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 roun	appos
30	off	off	ADP	_	31 fuh	case
31	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	27 roun	discourse
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 fuh	flat
33	grabe	grabe	X	Foreign=Yes	31 fuh	obj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 yad	punct
35	yad	yad	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grabe	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Miley	a den		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Miley not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present	eh bin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	ax not said to happen	infinitive	eh bin not said here	me		tree rules
5	somet	gerund	eh bin not said here			tree rules
6	check	infinitive		isself	a eh tun roun obl	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isself=Theme

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 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 26