Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 37

Den eh up an quaint Buh Rooster how de Sun wouldnt gie um no bittle fuh eat; how eh dribe um way; an how eh tell um fuh go back to de man wuh pit um on de trail fuh ketch um in eh bed, an mek um fine um.

Who acts: you, de Sun wouldnt, bittle fuh, eh, um fuh · What happens: den up, gie, eat, tell, go back · To what, where: eh, um fine um, wuh pit um, de ketch um · 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 (you, de Sun wouldnt, bittle fuh, eh), 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	Den	den	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eh	eh	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Den	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Den	compound:prt
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Rooster	det
5	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rooster	amod
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rooster	compound
7	Rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 gie	advmod
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wouldnt	amod
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wouldnt	compound
11	wouldnt	wouldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gie	nsubj
12	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	advcl
13	um	um	ADV	_	12 gie	advmod
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 fuh	det
15	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fuh	amod
16	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gie	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dribe	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 eh	advmod
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dribe	amod
21	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
22	um	um	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl:unmarked
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eh	det
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 eh	advmod
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	conj
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fuh	compound
30	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	nsubj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	ccomp
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 man	case
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	35 man	compound
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
36	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 um	amod
37	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 um	compound
38	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	44 um	case
40	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 um	amod
41	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fuh	compound
42	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ketch	compound
43	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 um	compound
44	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 bed	case
46	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bed	compound
47	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 um	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 um	punct
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 um	det
50	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 um	compound
51	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 um	compound
52	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 um	amod
53	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	den up	imperative	you not said here	eh		a quaint Buh Rooster obl; eh dribe obl; um way obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	gie	present	de Sun wouldnt				tree rules
3	eat	present	no bittle fuh				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present	a eh	a um fine um			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go back	infinitive	um fuh	wuh pit um	de ketch um in eh bed	to de man result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to man=Result

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 37