Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 65

De Debble tell um fuh go een de kitchin an wait topper um, an wen eh done eh brukwus him will come out an mek um sensible bout dis ting wuh call trouble.

Who acts: De, um fuh, wen eh, sensible dis ting · What happens: tell, go, do, come out, call · To what, where: um fuh, een kitchin, wen eh, mek um, trouble · 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 (De, um fuh, wen eh, sensible dis ting), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fuh	compound
5	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	xcomp
7	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	9 kitchin	amod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 een	flat
9	kitchin	kitchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 um	det
11	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 topper	compound
12	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eh	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
16	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 eh	acl
19	eh	eh	ADV	_	18 done	advmod
20	brukwus	brukwus	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	obl
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	parataxis
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 um	det
26	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 um	compound
27	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ting	amod
29	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dis	compound
30	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ting	compound
31	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 call	nsubj
32	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	33 call	discourse
33	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 um	acl:relcl
34	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 call	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	De	um fuh		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	infinitive	um fuh not said here	een kitchin	a topper um obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kitchin=Theme
3	do	participle		a wen eh not said here	brukwus Eh	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come out	future	a wen eh	a mek um	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	call	infinitive	sensible dis ting	trouble		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Recipient

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 65

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 65