Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 142

Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona half de butter.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: go, tek down, eat · To what, where: een Buh house, de pan gen, mona half

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 (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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gone	nsubj
2	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 house	nummod
4	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 house	compound
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Buh	flat
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tek	punct
8	eh	eh	INTJ	_	9 tek	discourse
9	tek	tek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gone	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 tek	compound:prt
11	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gen	compound
12	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gen	compound
13	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tek	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eh	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gen	conj
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tek	conj
18	mona	mona	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 half	compound
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 eat	obj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 half	flat:foreign
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 half	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	participle	Eh	een Buh house	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme
2	tek down	infinitive	Eh not said here	de pan gen and a eh	tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	Eh not said here	mona half and butter	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

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 142

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 142