Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 73

Eh tell um eh hab high feber, an eh cant rise; dat eh back bin er hot um so bad eh cant tun in eh bed.

Who acts: Eh, dat · What happens: tell, bin · To what, where: eh hab, hot um · 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 (Eh, dat), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eh	compound
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hab	compound
5	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feber	amod
7	feber	feber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hab	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rise	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rise	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rise	amod
11	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rise	compound
12	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hab	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bin	punct
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	nsubj
15	eh	eh	ADV	_	16 back	advmod
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 dat	advmod
17	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
18	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 bin	advmod
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 bad	advmod
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tun	amod
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tun	amod
24	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tun	amod
25	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 bed	case
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bed	compound
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tun	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Eh	eh hab and high feber and a eh cant rise					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hab=Recipient
2	bin	present	dat	hot um				bad eh cant tun in eh bed obl	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=Theme

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 73