Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 31

De groun yent broke; no hole day: an yet me see um, wid me own yeye, gone down, head foremose, een eh grabe.

Who acts: De yent, me · What happens: break, see, wi, go down · To what, where: an, um, me, own yeye

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 (De yent, me), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	3 yent	amod
2	groun	groun	X	Foreign=Yes	1 De	flat
3	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 day	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 broke	obj
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wid	punct
16	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wid	obj
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 yeye	amod
19	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wid	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 yeye	acl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 gone	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 foremose	punct
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 foremose	compound
25	foremose	foremose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 yeye	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 een	punct
27	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 wid	obl
28	eh	eh	INTJ	_	27 een	discourse
29	grabe	grabe	X	Foreign=Yes	28 eh	goeswith
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	De yent	an	day		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer a=Patient
2	see	present	me	um			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
3	wi	past	De yent not said here	me		een obl; own yeye and head foremose obj	tree rules
4	go down	participle		own yeye and head foremose not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 31