Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

Eh farruh an eh murrer try fuh swade um fuh stay long dem, but eh say eh mek up eh mine fuh go.

Who acts: Eh, mine · What happens: try, swade, stay, say up, go · To what, where: long dem, mek

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 (Eh, mine), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 murrer	det
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 murrer	amod
5	murrer	murrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
6	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
8	swade	swade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	8 swade	dep
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	11 stay	discourse
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 swade	conj
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dem	amod
13	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
16	eh	eh	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	conj
18	eh	eh	INTJ	_	19 mek	discourse
19	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	17 say	compound:prt
21	eh	eh	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
22	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 go	discourse
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive	Eh		a eh murrer nsubj	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	swade not said to happen	infinitive	Eh not said here			tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	Eh not said here	long dem		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dem=Location
4	say up speech: assert	infinitive	Eh not said here	mek		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mek=Topic
5	go	infinitive	mine			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 20