Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 36

Dem walk up tarrur side de fire an look at we, but dem yent bin crack eh teet ter we.

Who acts: Dem · What happens: walk up, look, ter · To what, where: tarrur side, we

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 (Dem), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 walk	compound:prt
4	tarrur	tarrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	compound
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl:unmarked
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 fire	compound
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	parataxis
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 we	case
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ter	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 ter	cc
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ter	nsubj
15	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ter	amod
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crack	compound
17	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 teet	compound
19	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ter	compound
20	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	parataxis
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ter	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk up	present	Dem	tarrur side	de fire parataxis	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	Dem not said here		at we	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme
3	ter		dem	we		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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 36