Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 142

Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy all de wud wuh talk in de house.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: crawl up

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 (Eh), 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	2 crawl	nsubj
2	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 crawl	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dist	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dist	det
6	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dist	amod
7	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dist	compound
8	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawl	parataxis
9	onder	onder	ADV	_	8 dist	advmod
10	de	de	ADP	_	11 winder	case
11	winder	winder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dist	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dist	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kin	nsubj
15	kin	kin	X	_	13 way	appos
16	yeddy	yeddy	X	_	15 kin	goeswith
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 kin	flat
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 kin	flat
19	wud	wud	X	_	15 kin	flat
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	15 kin	discourse
21	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kin	flat
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 house	compound
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talk	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crawl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl up	present	Eh					a eh leddown dist de winder and way parataxis	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 142