Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 27

Me foller um, an wen eh come teh eh own grabe eh pit eh head down, an eh gie two er tree whul, an down eh gone.

Who acts: foller um, grabe · What happens: come, head down, gie · To what, where: two

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 (foller um, grabe), 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	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 foller	nsubj
2	foller	foll	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 um	amod
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eh	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eh	det
6	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	compound
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 um	conj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	teh	teh	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	eh	eh	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 head	amod
12	grabe	grabe	X	Foreign=Yes	16 head	nsubj
13	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 head	amod
14	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eh	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	compound
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 head	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	conj
21	gie	gie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 gie	obj
23	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whul	amod
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whul	compound
25	whul	whul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 two	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gone	det
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 an	compound:prt
29	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	compound
30	gone	gone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whul	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	foller um and a wen eh		teh property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	head down		grabe		eh nmod:poss; down property	tree rules
3	gie	infinitive	foller um and a wen eh not said here	two		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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 27