Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 31

Eh wunt come to de do, but eh holler back to Buh Hawk, an eh say: “You tun right roun, an you go to de man wuh pint you to ketch me in me bed, an you tell um fuh fine you.”

Who acts: Eh wunt, holler, You · What happens: come, do, say, tun, go, ketch · To what, where: right roun, pint, holler, me bed, um, you · 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 (Eh wunt, holler, You), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wunt	compound
2	wunt	wunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 do	case
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
9	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 holler	det
10	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
11	back	back	ADV	_	13 Buh	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Buh	case
13	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 holler	nmod
14	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Buh	appos
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 tun	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 tun	punct
21	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tun	nsubj
22	tun	tun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 roun	amod
24	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tun	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 go	dep
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tun	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 man	compound
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	33 pint	discourse
33	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 go	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 ketch	mark
36	ketch	ketch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	advcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 ketch	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 bed	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 bed	compound
40	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ketch	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tell	punct
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 tell	det
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 tell	nsubj
44	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tun	parataxis
45	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tell	obj
46	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	47 fine	discourse
47	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 tell	ccomp
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 tell	iobj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Eh wunt					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	infinitive	Eh wunt not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	eh holler to Buh					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tun in a quote	present	You	right roun				tree rules
5	go in a quote	present	you	pint			to de man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
6	ketch in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	eh holler to Buh = holler		me bed		tree rules
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	um	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient um=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 31

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 31