Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 132

Den dem tell um say de dinner done ober; dat dem jist come from day, an dat dem bin hab plenty er good bittle fuh eat.

Who acts: Den dem, um, de dinner, dem jist · What happens: den, tell, say, do, come, eat · To what, where: de dinner, ober, hab plenty · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den dem, um, de dinner, dem jist), 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	Den	den	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dem	compound
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 dinner	compound
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dinner	acl
9	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dem	compound
12	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jist	compound
13	jist	jist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 day	case
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plenty	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plenty	det
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dem	compound
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bin	compound
21	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hab	compound
22	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plenty	compound
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
24	er	er	ADV	_	26 bittle	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bittle	amod
26	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 plenty	appos
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	28 eat	discourse
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bittle	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	den	infinitive				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Den dem			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	um	de dinner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic
4	do	participle	de dinner not said here	ober		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality
5	come	present	dem jist	a hab plenty	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	infinitive	dem jist not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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 3, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 132