Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 135

Eh yent bin gone no destant befo eh meet dem people duh comin back wuh bin gone fuh eat dinner long John Bay.

Who acts: yent bin, comin · What happens: go, meet, eat · To what, where: destant befo eh, dem people, 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 (yent bin, comin), 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	INTJ	_	3 bin	discourse
2	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bin	amod
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	nsubj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bin	acl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 eh	det
6	destant	destant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eh	amod
7	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eh	compound
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
9	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 people	compound
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 meet	obj
12	duh	duh	INTJ	_	17 gone	discourse
13	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 comin	advmod
15	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bin	amod
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 meet	advcl
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	19 eat	discourse
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	conj
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 eat	obl
22	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Bay	compound
23	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 long	vocative
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	participle	yent bin not said here	no destant befo eh		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eh=Theme
2	meet	present	yent bin	dem people		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
3	go	participle	comin		wuh bin nsubj	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	comin not said here	dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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 135

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 135