Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 188

De ole man dat scade eh drop eh hatchich, eh leff eh dog der wood, and eh lean fur home.

Who acts: ole scade eh, leff dog · What happens: drop, wood · To what, where: eh hatchich

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 (ole scade eh, leff dog), 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	X	Foreign=Yes	7 drop	advmod
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eh	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dat	compound
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scade	compound
5	scade	scade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	compound
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	nsubj
7	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	eh	eh	X	_	9 hatchich	compound
9	hatchich	hatchich	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eh	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 wood	discourse
12	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dog	compound
13	eh	eh	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leff	flat
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	nsubj
15	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 wood	amod
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fur	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fur	cc
19	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fur	det
20	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fur	amod
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obl
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 fur	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	ole scade eh	eh hatchich				eh lean fur obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchich=Theme
2	wood		leff dog						tree rules

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 188

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 188