Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 198

Me farruh befo me blan plant tetter, an him tetter bigger ner de calf er me leg.

Who acts: Me, brag, bigger ner · What happens: tetter, er · To what, where: me

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 (Me, brag, bigger ner), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tetter	nsubj
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	7 tetter	discourse
3	befo	befo	ADP	_	6 plant	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 plant	nsubj
5	blan	blan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tetter	obl
7	tetter	tetter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tetter	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tetter	det
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tetter	nsubj
11	tetter	tetter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tetter	conj
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 ner	amod
13	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 er	nsubj
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ner	flat:foreign
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ner	flat
16	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tetter	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 er	obj
18	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 er	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tetter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tetter	infinitive	Me		befo blan plant me	tree rules
2	tetter	infinitive	brag			tree rules
3	er	past	bigger ner	me	leg obj	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 198

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 198