Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 138

Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen um ter you, eh yent guine do you no good, an you guine dead a po man.”

Who acts: Tek um, you · What happens: tell, um, gen, guine · To what, where: wife way, you · 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 (Tek um, you), 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	Tek	Tek	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 um	compound
2	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ef	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ef	cc
5	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ef	compound
6	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 um	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	compound
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 um	nsubj
13	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 um	compound
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 er	punct
16	er	er	INTJ	_	18 gen	discourse
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gen	nsubj
18	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	ccomp
19	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	18 gen	dep
20	ter	ter	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eh	punct
23	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 tell	discourse
24	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 guine	amod
25	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eh	obl:unmarked
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 good	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 good	nsubj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 good	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dead	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 guine	det
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 guine	nsubj
33	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dead	nsubj
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	compound
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dead	nsubj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Tek um but member ef	wife way	you	ter you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
2	um		you	wife way not said here			tree rules
3	gen					who nsubj	tree rules
4	guine		you				tree rules

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 138

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 138