Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 157

Dem keep on bague, tel, at lenk, Buh Rooster gone in tarruh room, an eh tek de shade offer de lamp.

Who acts: Dem, lenk · What happens: keep, offer · To what, where: bague

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 (Dem, lenk), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 bague	case
4	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tel	punct
6	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bague	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lenk	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 lenk	case
9	lenk	lenk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 offer	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buh	flat
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lenk	appos
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	compound
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tek	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tek	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tek	amod
20	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 offer	compound
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 tek	flat:foreign
22	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 offer	compound
23	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	parataxis
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 lamp	compound
25	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 offer	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Dem			bague and tel			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on bague=Location
2	offer		lenk					de lamp 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 3, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 157