Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 43

Well, me an Sam meet um one moon-shiny night een de big road, wid de een er de rope tie roun eh neck.

Who acts: me, de big road · What happens: meet, tie · To what, where: um, eh neck

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 (me, de big road), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 meet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 meet	nsubj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Sam	det
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 me	conj
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meet	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	nummod
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shiny	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 moon	punct
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tie	obl:unmarked
13	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	flat
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 road	compound
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	amod
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tie	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wid	punct
18	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	conj
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 rope	compound
20	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	19 de	flat
21	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	19 de	flat:foreign
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 de	flat:foreign
23	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wid	advmod
24	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	conj
25	roun	roun	X	Foreign=Yes	27 neck	dep
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 neck	amod
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tie	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	infinitive	me	um					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Co-Agent
2	tie	present	de big road	eh neck			night		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient

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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 43