Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 152

Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.”

Who acts: Den eh holler · What happens: say, go on · To what, where: Den eh holler · 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 eh holler), 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	3 holler	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holler	compound
3	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 holler	compound:prt
5	de	de	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	turd	turd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holler	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eh	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eh	det
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 Go	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 me	punct
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Go	obl
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 comin	discourse
19	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Go	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	Den eh holler de turd time					a eh nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go on in a quote	infinitive		Den eh holler de turd time = holler				comin parataxis	vn function-105.2.1 «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 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 152