Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

Den eh say: “Enty me bin tell you eh heap better ter wait on de Lord stidder trus ter you own luck?

Who acts: Den eh, you, better ter · What happens: say, tell, heap, wait · To what, where: Enty, Lord stidder trus, de · 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 eh, you, better ter), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Enty	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Enty	punct
6	Enty	enty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 say	obl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Enty	iobj
8	bin	bin	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 heap	nsubj
11	eh	eh	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heap	aux
12	heap	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 ter	amod
14	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wait	nsubj
15	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 de	case
17	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl
18	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 trus	compound
19	stidder	stidder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trus	compound
20	trus	trus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl:unmarked
21	ter	ter	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wait	obl
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 luck	amod
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl:unmarked
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Den eh	Enty me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Den eh not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	heap in a quote		you				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	wait in a quote	present	better ter	Lord stidder trus	de	ter you; own luck obl:unmarked	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on de=Location

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 37