Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

Eh hail de Sun one time, an eh tell um eh so hongry eh ready fuh drap; dat eh cant git bittle fuh eat; an he dunno wuh fuh do.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: drap, eat, dunno, do · To what, where: Eh hail

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 (Buh), 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 hail	compound
2	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hail	appos
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Sun	flat
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hail	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eh	amod
10	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 hongry	advmod
14	hongry	hongry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eh	amod
15	eh	eh	ADP	_	16 ready	case
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hongry	obl
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 drap	discourse
18	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 hongry	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 git	punct
20	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 git	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 git	amod
22	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 git	amod
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hail	conj
24	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 git	amod
25	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	26 eat	discourse
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bittle	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 dunno	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dunno	det
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dunno	nsubj
30	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hail	conj
31	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	30 dunno	discourse
32	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	33 do	discourse
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 dunno	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	drap	infinitive		tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dunno		Buh	tree rules
4	do	infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 4