Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 5

De Sun, eh say: “Budder, ef you kin ketch me in me bed, me gree fuh fine you in bittle.”

Who acts: De Sun, you · What happens: say, kin, gree · To what, where: Budder, fine · 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 (De Sun, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sun	compound
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sun	punct
4	eh	eh	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Budder	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Budder	punct
8	Budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kin	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ef	punct
10	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Budder	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kin	nsubj
12	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
13	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kin	obj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kin	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kin	obl
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kin	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gree	punct
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 gree	nsubj
20	gree	gree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
21	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 fine	discourse
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gree	obj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 fine	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 bittle	case
25	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fine	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	De Sun			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kin in a quote	present	you	Budder and ef	in De Sun = sun; bed obl; ketch obj	tree rules
3	gree in a quote	present	De Sun = sun	fine you in bittle		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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 5