Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 59

Eh breff cant pizen you; an ef eh did knock at you, eh dis same es ef win try fuh hit you.”

Who acts: you, Eh breff, ef · What happens: pizen, knock, try, hit · To what, where: dis, same es, you

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 (you, Eh breff, ef), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 breff	compound
2	breff	breff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knock	nsubj
3	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pizen	amod
4	pizen	pizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breff	conj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pizen	nsubj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 knock	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
8	ef	ef	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eh	amod
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knock	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knock	aux
11	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 knock	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dis	punct
15	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dis	det
16	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knock	obl
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 es	amod
18	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dis	conj
19	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 try	nsubj
20	win	win	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 try	aux
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 es	acl:relcl
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	23 hit	discourse
23	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 hit	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knock	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 knock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pizen		you			tree rules
2	knock	past · do-support	Eh breff and cant pizen	eh dis and same es	at you; a ef eh nsubj	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at you=Patient
3	try		ef	same es not said here		tree rules
4	hit not said to happen	infinitive	ef not said here	you		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 59