Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 139

De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me budder; me neber guine tell nobody way me git all dis money.”

Who acts: De man, me · What happens: git, say, tell · To what, where: de money, Tenky, nobody way, me · 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 (De man, me), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	2 man	compound
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 git	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 git	amod
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 git	amod
6	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 money	compound
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 git	obj
9	eh	eh	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Tenky	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Tenky	punct
13	Tenky	Tenky	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tenky	punct
15	tenky	tenky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tenky	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tenky	punct
17	tenky	tenky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tenky	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 budder	punct
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 budder	compound
20	budder	budder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tenky	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
23	neber	neber	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guine	compound
24	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 me	flat
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	conj
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 way	compound
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
29	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 money	det
31	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 money	compound
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	git		De man	de money			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		Tenky and tenky and tenky and me budder			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tenky=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	me	nobody way	me	git obj; all dis money obj	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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 139