Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 5

Wen eh der eat dem crab, one er de claw fastne in him rotten teet, and hot um so bad eh mek um holler.

Who acts: Wen eh der · What happens: eat · To what, where: dem crab

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 eh der), 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	3 der	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 der	compound
3	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crab	compound
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 er	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 er	nummod
9	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crab	appos
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 fastne	compound
11	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastne	compound
12	fastne	fastne	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fastne	nmod
15	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 teet	amod
16	teet	teet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastne	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 um	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 um	cc
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 bad	advmod
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
23	eh	eh	ADP	_	26 holler	case
24	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 holler	compound
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 holler	compound
26	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bad	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Wen eh der	dem crab				hot um obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 5