Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 172

Eh hab eh dog fuh tree de coon, an eh hatchich fuh chop down de tree.

To what, where: eh dog fuh tree

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: 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	6 tree	nsubj
2	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nsubj
3	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	de	de	ADP	_	8 coon	case
8	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chop	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chop	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chop	amod
12	hatchich	hatchich	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fuh	compound
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chop	compound
14	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 chop	advmod
16	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tree	nmod:poss
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chop	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 172

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 172