Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 158

Wen dem look pon topper Buh Owl, eh yeye so big, an eh yez cock up so high, eh skade de people, an dem all holler an run.

Who acts: Wen dem, high eh skade · What happens: look, cock up, run · To what, where: pon topper

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 (Wen dem, high eh skade), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dem	compound
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 topper	compound
5	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obj
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 topper	appos
7	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buh	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	10 yeye	discourse
10	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yeye	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 yeye	conj
16	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	17 cock	dep
17	cock	cock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eh	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 cock	compound:prt
19	so	so	ADV	_	32 run	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skade	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skade	amod
23	skade	skade	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 run	nsubj
24	de	de	ADP	_	25 people	case
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 skade	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dem	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dem	det
28	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 skade	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 holler	det
30	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 run	nsubj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 run	det
32	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cock	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	Wen dem	pon topper	yeye obl	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme topper=Attribute
2	cock up	infinitive	Wen dem not said here			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run		high eh skade de people and a dem		all holler nsubj	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 158

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 158