Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 161
De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um you git um long me?”
Who acts: De man, You, bin · What happens: say, sho, tell, git · To what, where: you, De man · 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 man, You, bin), 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 man | compound |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 gen | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 No. | punct |
| 6 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 gen | compound |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 No. | punct |
| 8 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 snake | compound |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ax | compound |
| 10 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gen | compound |
| 12 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | ccomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 sho | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sho | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sho | nsubj |
| 16 | sho | sho | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sho | obj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bin | det |
| 19 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sho | conj |
| 21 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 git | compound |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 git | nsubj |
| 23 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 24 | um | um | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 tell | advmod |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | infinitive | De man | No. um gen ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sho in a quote | present | You | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | no bin | De man = man | long property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | git in a quote | you | 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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