Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 172

Steader dat, you gone home ter you wife, an you show um de money, an you tell um way you git um.

Who acts: Steader dat, you · What happens: gone, show, tell · To what, where: um, way, 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 (Steader dat, 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	Steader	Steader	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dat	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
5	gone	gone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
7	ter	ter	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wife	nsubj
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 show	det
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 show	nsubj
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 money	compound
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tell	det
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 show	parataxis
21	um	um	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 um	compound
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gone	present	Steader dat			ter wife you; you nsubj; home property	tree rules
2	show	present	you	um		de money obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent um=Recipient money=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	you	um way	you	git um ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic

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 172

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 172