Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 33

We bin ketch two fat possum, an dest befo we mek up we mine fuh go back home we buil one fire fuh wam weself.

Who acts: We · What happens: bin, mek up, go back, buil · To what, where: ketch, dest befo, fire fuh wam

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 (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 bin	nsubj
2	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bin	obj
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 possum	nummod
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 possum	amod
6	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bin	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 befo	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 befo	det
9	dest	d	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 befo	amod
10	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possum	appos
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 mek	nsubj
12	mek	mek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 befo	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 mek	compound:prt
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 mine	nsubj
15	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 befo	conj
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 go	discourse
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 bin	parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	home	home	ADV	_	21 buil	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 buil	nsubj
21	buil	buil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 fire	nummod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wam	compound
24	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wam	amod
25	wam	wam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buil	obj
26	weself	weself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wam	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present	We	ketch	two fat possum obj	tree rules
2	mek up	present	we	a dest befo mine not said here		tree rules
3	go back	infinitive				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	buil	present	we	fire fuh wam weself	home property	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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 33