Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 152

Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money, an me tell you wuh you do ter-morruh.

Who acts: wife, Dat snake, you · What happens: say, hab, tell, do · To what, where: eh belly, you, ter · 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 (wife, Dat snake, 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	eh	eh	PROPN	_	1 Den	list
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hab	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 hab	punct
7	Dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	compound
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hab	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hab	aux
10	hab	hab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 belly	amod
12	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hab	obj
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 belly	amod
14	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	16 money	dep
15	silber	silber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 money	compound
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tell	det
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hab	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	24 do	discourse
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	ccomp
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 morruh	punct
27	morruh	morruh	INTJ	_	25 ter	discourse
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Den eh's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hab in a quote	must	Dat snake	eh belly		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Den eh's wife = wife		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	present	you	ter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Eventuality

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 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 152