Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 170

Wen eh duh bleed ter det, an dis befo eh dead, Buh Snake, him say ter um: “Enty me bin tell you, wen me gen you dat silber money, ef you tell you wife way you git um you guine dead one po man?

Who acts: Wen, you, gen, wife way · What happens: bleed, say, tell, dat, money, um · To what, where: ter det, ter um, wen, gen, silber money, you · 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 (Wen, you, gen, wife way), 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	4 bleed	nsubj
2	eh	eh	X	_	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 bleed	discourse
4	bleed	bleed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ter	ter	X	_	6 det	compound
6	det	det	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bleed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dis	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dis	det
9	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 det	appos
10	befo	befo	ADP	_	12 dead	case
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	obl:unmarked
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dis	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Snake	punct
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Snake	compound
15	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bleed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bleed	parataxis
19	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Enty	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Enty	punct
23	Enty	enty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 um	appos
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
25	bin	bin	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wen	punct
29	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
31	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 money	nsubj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 dat	nsubj
33	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 gen	acl:relcl
34	silber	silber	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 money	compound
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ef	punct
37	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 money	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 tell	nsubj
39	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 money	acl:relcl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 tell	iobj
41	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 way	compound
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 um	nsubj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 um	nsubj
44	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 um	compound
45	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	ccomp
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 guine	nsubj
47	guine	guine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 um	acl:relcl
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 man	amod
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 po	nummod
50	po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 man	compound
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 guine	obj
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bleed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bleed	infinitive	Wen	ter det		Buh Snake obl	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent det=Source
2	say speech: ask	present	wen	ter um		me obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme i=Manner
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	wen not said here	wen	wen	you iobj	tree rules
4	dat in a quote	present	you	gen not said here			tree rules
5	money in a quote		gen			ef conj	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	silber money and ef not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	um in a quote		wife way			you nsubj	tree rules
8	guine in a quote	present	you	dead po man			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 170

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 170