Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 111

Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh cock up eh yez, an eh holler out: “Me yeddy you.

Who acts: you, sutten eh · What happens: den up, trow down, look off · To what, where: ob, eh hoe, way

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sutten 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	Den	den	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ob	det
3	ob	ob	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obj
4	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 trow	advmod
5	sutten	sutten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eh	amod
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trow	nsubj
7	trow	trow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 trow	compound:prt
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hoe	amod
10	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trow	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eh	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eh	det
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hoe	appos
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Den	conj
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obj
16	off	off	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cock	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cock	det
19	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cock	amod
20	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	1 Den	compound:prt
22	eh	eh	INTJ	_	1 Den	discourse
23	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	dep
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holler	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 holler	det
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 holler	amod
27	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
28	out	out	ADP	_	1 Den	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 yeddy	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 yeddy	punct
31	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 yeddy	compound
32	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	obl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Den	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	den up	imperative	you not said here	all ob	a eh holler obl; Me yeddy obl; a eh cock parataxis	tree rules
2	trow down	present	sutten eh	eh hoe		tree rules
3	look off	infinitive	you not said here	way	off property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute

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 5, sentence 111

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 111