Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

An eh leh de Debble know say him wan fine out wuh dis ting duh wuh bin a bodder ebry body, an wuh ebry body call trouble.

Who acts: eh leh · What happens: say, want, bin · To what, where: Debble, fine wuh dis ting, ebry body · 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 leh), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leh	det
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leh	compound
3	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 Debble	case
5	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 leh	nmod
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	wan	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	xcomp
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ting	amod
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 fine	compound:prt
12	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ting	amod
13	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ting	compound
14	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wan	obj
15	duh	duh	INTJ	_	9 wan	discourse
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	17 bin	discourse
17	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wan	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 body	det
19	bodder	bodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ebry	compound
20	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 body	compound
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trouble	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 trouble	det
24	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	28 trouble	discourse
25	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trouble	amod
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 call	compound
27	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trouble	compound
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bin	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a eh leh de Debble	Debble		tree rules
2	want	infinitive	a eh leh de Debble not said here	fine wuh dis ting		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ting=Theme
3	bin	infinitive	a eh leh de Debble not said here	a ebry body	a ebry call trouble conj	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=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 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 64