Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 132

Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh mussne tell eh wife way eh git de money.

Who acts: Den snake, money, mussne · What happens: tell, day · To what, where: um eh, eh wife way · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den snake, money, mussne), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 snake	compound
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	compound
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 um	amod
8	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 um	compound
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 day	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nsubj
12	nex	nex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mussne	det
17	mussne	mussne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	nsubj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	compound
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
22	eh	eh	INTJ	_	23 git	discourse
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 money	compound
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Den snake	um eh and guine gen um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient
2	day		money			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	eh mussne	eh wife way	git obl; de money ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 132