Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 147

Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.”

Who acts: Eh wife, you · What happens: say, tell, bin · To what, where: way git, Eh wife, way · 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 (Eh wife, 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wife	compound
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wife	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eh	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eh	det
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	conj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Tell	punct
10	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Tell	iobj
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 git	compound
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bin	nsubj
14	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	acl:relcl
15	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Tell	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 money	det
17	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 money	compound
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Tell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	Eh wife and a eh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Eh wife and a eh not said here	way git	Eh wife and a eh = wife	all dis money obj	tree rules
3	bin in a quote	present	you	way not said here			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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 147

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 147