Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 118

Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go fuh keep me pintment.”

Who acts: prommus fuh bactize · What happens: go, keep · To what, where: me

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 (prommus fuh bactize), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 bactize	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 prommus	compound
4	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bactize	compound
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bactize	amod
6	bactize	bactize	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	nsubj
7	er	er	CCONJ	_	9 dis	cc
8	chile	chile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dis	compound
9	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bactize	conj
10	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hour	compound
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dis	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mus	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mus	det
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 mus	compound
15	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bactize	conj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	xcomp
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fuh	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	pintment	pintment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	prommus fuh bactize er chile dis and berry hour and a me mus					fuh property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	prommus fuh bactize er chile dis and berry hour and a me mus not said here	me				pintment obj	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pintment=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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 118