Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 186

Wen de Gallinipper see wuh de ole man up teh, eh rare back an try fur pull eh bill outer de tree.

Who acts: Wen, try fur · What happens: see, pull · To what, where: de ole man, eh bill

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 (Wen, try fur), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Gallinipper	Gallinipper	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 man	compound
7	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	10 teh	case
10	teh	teh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rare	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	13 rare	discourse
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 rare	advmod
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fur	det
16	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fur	compound
17	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pull	nsubj
18	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rare	parataxis
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bill	compound
20	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pull	obj
21	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 tree	compound
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pull	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Wen	de ole man up teh					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pull	infinitive	a try fur	eh bill				outer de tree obj	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent bill=Theme tree=Result

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 186

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 186