Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 95

Lemme pit dem on you, an den me tink me kin manage fuh go long wid you.”

Who acts: Lemme pit dem · What happens: tink, manage, go · To what, where: me, fuh

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 (Lemme pit dem), 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	Lemme	lemme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dem	amod
2	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dem	compound
3	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tink	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dem	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dem	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 den	det
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tink	nsubj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 den	nmod
10	tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tink	obj
12	kin	kin	ADV	_	13 manage	advmod
13	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tink	advcl
14	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 manage	obj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	conj
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 wid	advmod
17	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 manage	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tink	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tink	infinitive	Lemme pit dem on you	me	a den me nsubj	tree rules
2	manage	present	Lemme pit dem on you not said here	fuh	you obj; kin property	tree rules
3	go	present	Lemme pit dem on you not said here		wid property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 95