Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 203

Wen Buh Sparruh fine dem all bent pon mek um show eh tetter, eh say: “Well, wait pon top me.

Who acts: Wen fine dem · What happens: show, tetter, say, wait, top · To what, where: pon, Wen fine dem · 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 (Wen fine dem), 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	5 dem	compound
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Sparruh	Sparruh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dem	amod
5	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pon	det
7	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pon	amod
8	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	nsubj
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 um	compound
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pon	appos
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	eh	eh	ADV	_	13 tetter	advmod
13	tetter	tetter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 say	discourse
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 show	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
19	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 wait	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
21	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
22	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wait	obj
23	top	top	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wait	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 top	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Wen fine dem		all bent pon nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tetter	present				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	Wen fine dem not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait in a quote	infinitive		pon		tree rules
5	top in a quote	infinitive		Wen fine dem = dem		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme

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 203

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 203