Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 153

Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh head off long you ax, an tek all de money outer um.”

Who acts: Wen snake, fuh, you, de money · What happens: come, talk, pick, ax, um · To what, where: you

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 (Wen snake, fuh, you, de money), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 snake	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 you	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pick	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 pick	nsubj
11	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 pick	obj
13	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 head	det
15	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	compound
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	obj
18	off	off	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ax	amod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 ax	nsubj
21	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pick	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tek	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tek	det
24	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ax	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 um	det
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 money	compound
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	nsubj
28	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ax	nmod:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Wen snake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	present	fuh	you		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pick	present	you	you	chance obj; a eh head obj	tree rules
4	ax		you		a tek conj	tree rules
5	um		de money			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 153

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 153