Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

All me got duh me wife an me chillun, an me know me yent guine gie you none er dem.”

Who acts: All, yent guine · What happens: get, know, gie · To what, where: me, 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 (All, yent guine), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 got	nsubj
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	duh	duh	INTJ	_	5 me	discourse
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chillun	det
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 chillun	compound
9	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 me	det
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 chillun	conj
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	obj
15	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guine	amod
16	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gie	nsubj
17	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 gie	obj
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 dem	compound
20	er	er	X	_	21 dem	compound
21	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gie	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	All	me	wife obj; a me chillun me obj	tree rules
2	know	infinitive	All not said here	me		tree rules
3	gie	present	yent guine	you	none er dem obj	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 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 44