Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 16

De nex day de Alligatur duh sun ehself on de ribber bank, an eh yeddy er woice say: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.

Who acts: eh yeddy, Alligatur · What happens: say, ferry · To what, where: sun, eh yeddy · 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 (eh yeddy, Alligatur), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	3 day	advmod
2	nex	nex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 Alligatur	case
5	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	duh	duh	INTJ	_	7 sun	discourse
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
8	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sun	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 bank	case
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bank	amod
11	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bank	compound
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yeddy	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 yeddy	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 yeddy	amod
16	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	nsubj
17	er	er	X	_	18 woice	compound
18	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yeddy	conj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 ferry	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 ferry	punct
22	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 belly	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Yaller	punct
24	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Alligatur	nmod:desc
25	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ferry	nsubj
26	ferry	ferry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ferry	obj
28	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ferry	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a eh yeddy and er woice	sun ehself on de ribber bank			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ferry in a quote	infinitive	Alligatur Yaller belly	a eh yeddy and er woice = yeddy				ober obj	vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme ober=Result

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 16