Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 194

Wen de tetter done mek an dig, all de bud collec togarruh, an ebry one fotch a tetter ter show wuh kind a crop eh mek.

What happens: do, show · To what, where: Wen, kind

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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	tetter	tetter	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 show	advcl
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dig	det
7	dig	dig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 collec	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 collec	det
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 collec	amod
11	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 collec	compound
12	collec	collec	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dig	conj
13	togarruh	togarruh	INTJ	_	12 collec	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fotch	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fotch	det
16	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fotch	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fotch	compound
18	fotch	fotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dig	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ter	det
20	tetter	tetter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	compound
21	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
22	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	22 show	discourse
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 show	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eh	det
26	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eh	compound
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 show	obj
28	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 eh	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive · passive		Wen				mek obj; a dig and all de bud collec and a ebry one fotch obj; a tetter ter obj	tree rules
2	show	present		kind				a crop eh obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient eh=Topic

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 194

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 194