Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 151

De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done furgit eh prommus, an eh up an mek um sensible how de ting all happne.

Who acts: De wife, mus, man · What happens: say, eh, tell, do, eh up · To what, where: um, furgit eh prommus, mek um · 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 wife, mus, man), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wife	compound
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 eh	cc
5	eh	eh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
6	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eh	ccomp
8	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bague	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bague	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bague	amod
12	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 hard	advmod
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tel	amod
15	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bague	appos
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 tel	flat:foreign
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tel	appos
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 man	acl
19	furgit	furgit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 prommus	amod
20	eh	eh	X	_	21 prommus	compound
21	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 done	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eh	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 eh	det
24	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 eh	compound:prt
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	obj
29	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ting	amod
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 de	advmod
31	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ting	amod
32	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	obl:unmarked
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 happne	det
34	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	De wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	eh	infinitive	De wife not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	mus	um and a eh bague		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
4	do	participle	man not said here	furgit eh prommus		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prommus=Eventuality
5	eh up	present	mus not said here	a mek um	sensible de ting obl:unmarked; all happne 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 151

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 151