Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

Eh tek out de good fish, eh tring um on a mash grass, an eh lef in de boat some leely gannet-mullet an catfish wuh eh no want, an one big King Crab wuh eh bin ketch duh ribber.

Who acts: Eh, tring, one big Crab · What happens: tek out, tre, boat, ketch · To what, where: um, mash grass, leely gannet mullet

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 (Eh, tring, one big Crab), 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 tek	nsubj
2	tek	tek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 tek	compound:prt
4	de	de	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boat	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	21 boat	discourse
9	tring	tre	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 boat	csubj
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tring	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 grass	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 grass	det
13	mash	mash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grass	compound
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tring	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lef	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lef	det
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lef	amod
18	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grass	appos
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 de	case
20	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lef	nmod
21	boat	boat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tek	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 mullet	det
23	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mullet	amod
24	gannet	gannet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mullet	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 gannet	punct
26	mullet	mullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boat	obj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 catfish	det
28	catfish	catfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mullet	appos
29	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	28 catfish	discourse
30	eh	eh	INTJ	_	32 want	discourse
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 want	det
32	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catfish	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ketch	punct
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 ketch	det
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 Crab	nummod
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Crab	amod
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Crab	nmod:desc
38	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 ketch	nsubj
39	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	42 ketch	discourse
40	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ketch	amod
41	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ketch	compound
42	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catfish	conj
43	duh	duh	INTJ	_	44 ribber	discourse
44	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ketch	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tek out	infinitive	Eh			de good fish	tree rules
2	tre	gerund		um	a mash grass		tree rules
3	boat	present	tring	some leely gannet mullet			vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mullet=Theme
4	ketch		one big Crab King			ribber 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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 62