Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 84

Eh say eh too weak fuh git outer de bed, and dat ef eh did get up eh too weak fuh walk ter de Gal house.

Who acts: Eh, ef · What happens: say, get up · To what, where: eh, weak fuh walk ter · 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, ef), 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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 weak	advmod
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 git	compound
7	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eh	appos
8	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 bed	compound
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 git	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
13	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ef	det
14	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	nsubj
15	eh	eh	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 get	compound:prt
19	eh	eh	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 weak	advmod
21	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ter	amod
22	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ter	amod
23	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ter	compound
24	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
25	de	de	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ter	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Eh	eh					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eh=Topic
2	get up	past · do-support	that ef	weak fuh walk ter				de Gal house	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ter=Stimulus

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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 84