Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 136

Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po man, an eh say: “You member wuh me bin tell you las ebenin?

Who acts: silber money, You, member · What happens: say, member, tell · To what, where: las ebenin, you, silber money · 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 (silber money, You, member), 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	4 quart	compound
2	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quart	compound
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 spit	flat
4	quart	quart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nsubj
5	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	7 money	dep
6	silber	silber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 dist	case
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 dist	compound
10	groun	groun	X	_	11 dist	compound
11	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 er	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	compound
14	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dist	nmod
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 man	compound
16	po	po	X	Foreign=Yes	15 de	flat:foreign
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 eh	det
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	conj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 money	acl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 member	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 member	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 member	nsubj
25	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	conj
26	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	27 me	discourse
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 member	conj
28	bin	bin	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 member	acl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ebenin	compound
32	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	infinitive	silber money Eh spit quart on de groun dist in front er and member not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	member in a quote		You			me conj	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	member not said here	las ebenin	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ebenin=Topic

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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 136