Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 140

Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin guine go back on eh prommus an tell eh wife: so eh mek up eh mine fuh foller um an see wuh happne.

Who acts: Arter eh leff, eh bin guine · What happens: go, say, go back, see · To what, where: swamp fuh, eh prommus · 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 (Arter eh leff, eh bin guine), 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	Arter	Arter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leff	compound
2	eh	eh	X	_	3 leff	compound
3	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	nsubj
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 leff	flat:foreign
5	swamp	swamp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fuh	amod
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leff	conj
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fuh	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spicion	punct
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 spicion	compound
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spicion	compound
12	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leff	conj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guine	amod
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guine	compound
16	guine	guine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 prommus	case
20	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prommus	compound
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wife	det
23	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	compound
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	compound
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prommus	nmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 mek	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 eh	advmod
28	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mek	amod
29	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 say	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 mek	compound:prt
31	eh	eh	ADV	_	32 mine	advmod
32	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mek	nmod
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	35 um	discourse
34	foller	foller	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mine	appos
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 happne	det
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 happne	compound
38	wuh	wuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 happne	compound
39	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	participle		swamp fuh not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Arter eh leff and swamp fuh and de snake spicion			eh mek mine parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back	infinitive	eh bin guine		eh prommus a eh wife		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 140

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 140