Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

“Me dunno, cept dem want fuh see one anurrer, an wisit dem ole home, an look pon topper dem ole fren.”

Who acts: Me dunno · What happens: want, see, look · To what, where: one anurrer, topper dem

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 dunno), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
2	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dunno	compound
3	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cept	punct
5	cept	cept	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dunno	conj
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dunno	conj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 see	discourse
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 anurrer	nummod
11	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 home	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 home	det
14	wisit	wisit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dem	compound
15	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 home	compound
16	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 home	amod
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 anurrer	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 look	det
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	conj
21	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 topper	compound
22	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dem	compound
23	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obj
24	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fren	amod
25	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dem	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Me dunno and cept and dem		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	Me dunno and cept and dem not said here	one anurrer	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anurrer=Stimulus
3	look in a quote	present	Me dunno and cept and dem not said here	topper dem and ole fren	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dem=Attribute

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 61