Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 63

Eh ketch de Debble duh eat eh brukwus; an eh ax um huccum ebry body hab trouble cept him.

Who acts: ketch duh, um huccum, eh ebry hab trouble · What happens: eat, trouble, cept · To what, where: brukwus, huccum

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 (ketch duh, um huccum, eh ebry hab trouble), 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 ketch	compound
2	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duh	compound
3	de	de	ADP	_	4 Debble	case
4	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ketch	nmod
5	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brukwus	det
8	brukwus	brukwus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cept	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 trouble	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trouble	amod
12	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 huccum	compound
14	huccum	huccum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trouble	nsubj
15	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trouble	amod
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hab	compound
17	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trouble	compound
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cept	nsubj
19	cept	cept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cept	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	ketch duh	eh brukwus	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brukwus=Patient
2	trouble		um huccum		tree rules
3	cept	past	a eh ebry hab trouble	huccum	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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 63