Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 35

Wen we bin er wam we han an we foot roun de fire, yuh come ole Uncle Andrew, wuh nusen ter dribe fur ole Mossa, an ole Uncle Jupter, wuh bin de gadner, an ole Aunt Peggy.

Who acts: we · What happens: bin, han, foot, come, dribe · To what, where: Wen, ole Mossa

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	Wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	obl
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bin	nsubj
3	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 han	advmod
5	wam	wam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 han	compound
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 han	nsubj
7	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	obj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 foot	det
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 foot	nsubj
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 han	appos
11	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	10 foot	conj
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 roun	flat
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foot	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	yuh	yuh	INTJ	_	16 come	discourse
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bin	conj
17	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Andrew	amod
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	compound
19	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 come	vocative
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wuh	punct
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	24 dribe	discourse
22	nusen	nusen	X	Foreign=Yes	21 wuh	dep
23	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	24 dribe	dep
24	dribe	dribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bin	conj
25	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mossa	nsubj
26	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Mossa	amod
27	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 dribe	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Jupter	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Uncle	det
30	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Uncle	amod
31	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Jupter	compound
32	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Mossa	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bin	punct
34	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bin	amod
35	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mossa	appos
36	de	de	ADP	_	37 gadner	case
37	gadner	gadner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bin	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Aunt	punct
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Aunt	det
40	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Aunt	amod
41	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mossa	appos
42	Peggy	Peggy	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Aunt	appos
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present	we	Wen		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	han		we			tree rules
3	foot		we		fire conj	tree rules
4	come	infinitive	we not said here		ole Uncle Andrew vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dribe	infinitive	we not said here	ole Mossa fur and Uncle Jupter		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 35

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 35