Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 2

Me hair bin a rise on me head, an wen me come fuh fine out me bin een me own bed, an fowl bin a crow fuh day.

Who acts: Me hair bin, fine, fowl · What happens: come, bin · To what, where: own bed, crow

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me hair bin, fine, fowl), 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	Me	me	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bin	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	compound
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rise	det
5	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	compound
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rise	nmod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wen	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wen	det
11	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bin	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wen	obj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	fuh	fuh	ADV	_	15 fine	advmod
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bin	nsubj
16	out	out	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fine	obl
18	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	parataxis
19	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bed	nmod:unmarked
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 een	nmod:unmarked
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bed	amod
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bin	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bin	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fowl	det
25	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bin	nsubj
26	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bin	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 crow	det
28	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bin	obj
29	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crow	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	Me hair bin and a wen me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bin	present	fine out me	own bed een me	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	bin	infinitive	a fowl	a crow fuh day	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crow=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 15, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 2