Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 158

Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de money wuh me bin gen you?”

Who acts: You, Dem talk togerrur, wife · What happens: bin, show · To what, where: money, you, gen

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 (You, Dem talk togerrur, wife), 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	Dem	dem	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 togerrur	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 togerrur	compound
3	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 ax	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ax	det
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ax	amod
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ax	compound
8	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 togerrur	appos
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 ax	flat
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ax	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 bin	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 bin	punct
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	8 ax	conj
15	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 show	iobj
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 money	nmod:poss
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 wife	flat:foreign
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obj
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	22 bin	discourse
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bin	nsubj
22	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 show	conj
23	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bin	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bin	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bin in a quote	present	You				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	show in a quote	present	Dem talk togerrur	wife's money	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Topic
3	bin in a quote	present	Den eh's wife = wife	gen		you 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 158

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 158