Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 33

Eh try fuh swade de Sun, but de Sun wunt listne ter um; and de Sun dribe um way from him house.

Who acts: you, Sun dribe · What happens: try, wunt, way · To what, where: swade de Sun, um

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, Sun dribe), 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 try	discourse
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	6 Sun	discourse
4	swade	swade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	compound
5	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sun	compound
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 try	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wunt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wunt	cc
9	de	de	ADP	_	10 Sun	case
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wunt	obl
11	wunt	wunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 try	conj
12	listne	listne	X	Foreign=Yes	14 um	dep
13	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	12 listne	flat:foreign
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wunt	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 way	cc
17	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sun	compound
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dribe	compound
19	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	nsubj
20	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 try	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	swade de Sun		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Eventuality
2	wunt	present	you not said here	um	de Sun	tree rules
3	way		Sun dribe		from Sun; house conj	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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 33