Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

One time me try fuh ketch um up in me arm, but me han gone clean tru um dis luk er shadder, an den eh wanish, an me so sorry.”

Who acts: me, tru · What happens: try up, luk · To what, where: ketch, me arm

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, tru), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 time	nummod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obl:unmarked
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
4	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	4 try	discourse
6	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
7	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 try	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	4 try	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 arm	compound
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sorry	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 sorry	cc
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 han	compound
15	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sorry	nsubj
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luk	amod
17	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luk	amod
18	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	21 luk	nsubj
19	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luk	amod
20	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 luk	compound
21	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 han	appos
22	er	er	ADV	PronType=Int	23 shadder	advmod
23	shadder	shadd	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 luk	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 den	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 den	det
26	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 luk	conj
27	eh	eh	ADV	PronType=Int	28 wanish	advmod
28	wanish	wanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 den	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 me	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 me	det
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 han	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 sorry	advmod
33	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 try	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try up	present	me	ketch		me arm	time	um obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ketch=Experiencer um=Result
2	luk		tru					a den conj	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 65

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 65