Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 41

Eh wife tell um; an arter Buh Tiger fine out Buh Bear yent guine leff, eh come out.

Who acts: Eh wife, arter, eh · What happens: tell, fine out, come out · To what, where: um · 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 (Eh wife, arter, eh), 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	2 wife	compound
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arter	det
7	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 arter	appos
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 fine	compound:prt
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fine	conj
13	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Buh	flat
14	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leff	amod
15	guine	guine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leff	amod
16	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Buh	list
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Eh wife	um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2	fine out	past	a arter		Buh yent guine leff conj	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	come out	present	eh		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 41