Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 196

Eh look ober all de tetter, an wen eh fine Buh Sparruh no bin bring none, eh ax Buh Sparruh: “Way you tetter?”

Who acts: you, wen · What happens: look, tetter, bring · To what, where: all, none, Way

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 (you, wen), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 look	discourse
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ober	ober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 look	obl
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 tetter	dep
6	tetter	tetter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 all	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wen	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wen	det
9	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	nsubj
10	eh	eh	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Sparruh	amod
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sparruh	compound
13	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wen	appos
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 bin	det
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	nsubj
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	conj
17	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 bring	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ax	punct
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ax	amod
20	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 none	appos
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ax	appos
22	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Buh	flat
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Way	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Way	punct
25	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 look	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tetter	nsubj
27	tetter	tetter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Way	acl:relcl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	all	Way parataxis; ober property	tree rules
2	tetter	infinitive				tree rules
3	bring	infinitive	a wen	none	no bin nsubj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent none=Theme
4	tetter in a quote	present	you	Way not said here		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 196

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 196