Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 14

Den de Alligatur say: “Ef you prommus no fuh tell who cahr you ober de ribber, me will pit you cross.”

Who acts: Den, you, fuh tell · What happens: say, ribber, pit, cross · 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 (Den, you, fuh tell), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 prommus	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 prommus	punct
7	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prommus	compound
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 Ef	flat
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 tell	det
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	amod
12	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prommus	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 pit	nsubj
14	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 who	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 ribber	nsubj
16	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ribber	compound
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 ribber	compound
18	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cahr	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 pit	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pit	aux
22	pit	pit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 cross	nsubj
24	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pit	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 prommus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Den	Ef prommus ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ribber in a quote		you		tree rules
3	pit in a quote	future	no fuh tell	me nsubj	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross in a quote	present	you		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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 5, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 14