Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 184

De Gallinipper miss eh lick, an dribe eh bill trugh de tree tell de pint come out on tarruh side.

Who acts: De, trugh de tree · What happens: miss, tell, come out · To what, where: lick, de pint, side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (De, trugh de tree), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 miss	nsubj
2	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lick	det
5	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miss	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bill	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bill	det
8	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bill	compound
10	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lick	appos
11	trugh	trugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bill	acl:relcl
15	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pint	amod
16	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	_	21 side	discourse
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 miss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	miss	present	De	eh lick			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lick=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	present	trugh de tree	de pint			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pint=Recipient
3	come out	present	trugh de tree not said here		side	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 184

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 184