Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

Eh farruh tell um: “De man wuh eat any er dat bread long you will hab fuh rastle long you fuh sebbn year.”

Who acts: you, De man · What happens: tell, eat, hab, rastle · To what, where: um, dat bread, 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 (you, De man), 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	INTJ	_	3 tell	discourse
2	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	3 tell	discourse
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
7	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	nsubj
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	10 eat	discourse
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 bread	det
12	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	compound
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bread	compound
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 hab	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 hab	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hab	aux
18	hab	hab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	advcl
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 hab	discourse
20	rastle	rastle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hab	xcomp
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 rastle	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 rastle	obj
23	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	20 rastle	discourse
24	sebbn	sebbn	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 year	nummod
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rastle	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	um			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	De man	any dat bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
3	hab in a quote	future	you			long property	tree rules
4	rastle in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	you	year	long property	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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 23