Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, an try me bes, me scacely kin mek bittle nough fuh me an me wife fuh eat.”

What happens: try, eat · To what, where: me, der wuk

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 der	nsubj
2	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 wuk	amod
3	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 swamp	case
5	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swamp	compound
6	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuk	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 tel	case
8	sunrise	sunrise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tel	amod
9	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swamp	nmod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tel	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	compound
13	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	flat
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wuk	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 day	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 try	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 try	det
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wuk	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 try	obj
21	bes	be	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 try	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 me	punct
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bes	nmod
24	scacely	scacely	ADV	_	28 nough	advmod
25	kin	kin	SCONJ	_	28 nough	mark
26	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 nough	nsubj
27	bittle	bittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nough	amod
28	nough	nough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 try	advcl
29	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	30 me	discourse
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 nough	obl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wife	det
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nough	parataxis
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	35 eat	discourse
35	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 wife	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wuk	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wuk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive		me				bes me obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer be=Result
2	eat	infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 4, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 123