Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 53

You suttenly will fine out dat wuh eh gie you will do you no harm, but eh will fetch good luck ter you.”

Who acts: You, eh · What happens: fine out, gie, do, fetch · To what, where: dat, you, good luck

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, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
2	suttenly	suttenly	ADV	_	4 fine	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
4	fine	fine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fine	compound:prt
6	dat	dat	X	_	4 fine	obj
7	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 gie	discourse
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gie	nsubj
9	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 harm	det
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fetch	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fetch	cc
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fetch	aux
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	parataxis
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 luck	amod
22	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obj
23	ter	ter	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fetch	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fine out	future	You	dat	suttenly property	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=Recipient
2	gie	present	eh			tree rules
3	do	future	you	you	no harm obj	tree rules
4	fetch	future	eh	good luck	ter you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 53