Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 193

One time de Bluefinch, de Trasher, de Red-Bud, de Jay-Bud, de Pattridge, and de Sparruh all come inter cohoot ter plant tetter[3] and see who kin raise de bigges.

Who acts: One time · What happens: come, tetter, see, raise · To what, where: inter, 3 · 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 (One time), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 time	nummod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
3	de	de	ADP	_	4 Bluefinch	case
4	Bluefinch	Bluefinch	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Trasher	punct
6	de	de	ADP	_	7 Trasher	case
7	Trasher	Trasher	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 de	punct
9	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	flat
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	flat
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Bud	punct
12	Bud	Bud	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Bud	punct
14	de	de	ADP	_	17 Bud	case
15	Jay	Jay	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Bud	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Jay	punct
17	Bud	Bud	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 de	punct
19	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	conj
20	Pattridge	Pattridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Sparruh	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Sparruh	cc
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Sparruh	advmod
24	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trasher	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obj
28	cohoot	cohoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plant	compound
29	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plant	compound
30	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inter	appos
31	tetter	tetter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 come	parataxis
32	[	[	PUNCT	_	33 3	punct
33	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 tetter	obj
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	33 3	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
36	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 tetter	conj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 raise	nsubj
38	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 raise	amod
39	raise	raise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	ccomp
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	41 bigges	compound
41	bigges	bigge	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 raise	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	One time de Bluefinch	inter	Trasher de Jay Bud and Bud and de and Sparruh nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inter=Theme
2	tetter	infinitive		3		tree rules
3	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	raise				who nsubj; de bigges conj	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 193

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 193