Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 128

Bimeby yuh come some er dem, wuh bin eat dinner wid Cooter Bay, duh mek dem way home.

Who acts: Bimeby, wuh bin · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: er dem, dinner

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, wuh bin), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	yuh	yuh	INTJ	_	3 come	discourse
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dem	det
5	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dem	compound
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
8	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bin	amod
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	nsubj
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
12	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bay	amod
13	Cooter	Cooter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bay	compound
14	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
16	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 way	discourse
17	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
18	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	parataxis
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 way	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Bimeby	some er dem					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dem=Theme
2	eat	present	wuh bin	dinner				wid Cooter Bay obj; mek dem way parataxis	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 3, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 128