Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 122

Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de fiel way eh bin leff eh hoe.

Who acts: you, mouf · What happens: wipe, tell · To what, where: eh, eh git · 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 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, mouf), 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	INTJ	_	2 wipe	discourse
2	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	2 wipe	obj
4	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sukkle	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sukkle	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sukkle	amod
8	sukkle	sukkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouf	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wipe	advcl
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 git	compound
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	ter	ter	X	_	15 place	compound
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 ter	flat:foreign
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	ccomp
16	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 place	flat
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 way	advmod
18	fiel	fiel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 place	nmod
20	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hoe	det
21	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leff	compound
22	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eh	compound
23	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hoe	compound
24	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wipe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	imperative	you not said here	eh					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eh=Source
2	tell speech: assert	present	mouf and a eh sukkle	eh git				ter place fiel way eh eh hoe ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent git=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 5, sentence 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 122