Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 167

Den dey all run up an cahr de meat to dem house, an cook um an eat um.

Who acts: cook um · What happens: run up, eat · To what, where: Den dey, um

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook um), 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dey	compound
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	nmod:desc
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 meat	det
7	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	compound
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	compound
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
15	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	appos
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eat	det
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 um	acl:relcl
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	present		Den dey				a cahr de meat to dem house parataxis; all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	a cook um not said here	um					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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 2, sentence 167

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 167