Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 175

Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh farruh an eh murrer, but eh tek um on eh wing, an eh sail ober de sea, an eh tell eh chillun: “De time come fuh you fuh mek you own libbin.

Who acts: De time, mek · What happens: come, own · To what, where: you, libbin, Eh dem chillun

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 (De time, mek), 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	5 chillun	compound
2	wunt	wunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dem	compound
3	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dem	compound
4	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillun	compound
5	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 chillun	flat
7	de	de	ADP	_	8 nes	case
8	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chillun	nmod
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 lazy	discourse
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nes	amod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 topper	det
12	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pon	compound
13	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 topper	compound
14	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lazy	appos
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 topper	discourse
16	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	14 topper	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 murrer	det
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 murrer	amod
19	murrer	murrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 farruh	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 um	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 um	cc
22	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 um	det
23	tek	tek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 um	amod
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillun	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 wing	case
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wing	amod
27	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ober	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ober	det
30	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ober	amod
31	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ober	compound
32	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	conj
33	de	de	ADP	_	34 sea	case
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ober	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 chillun	punct
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 chillun	det
37	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 chillun	amod
38	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eh	compound
39	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chillun	compound
40	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
43	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 time	compound
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 come	nsubj
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 chillun	conj
46	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	45 come	discourse
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 come	obl
48	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	51 own	discourse
49	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 own	nsubj
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 own	nsubj
51	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 come	parataxis
52	libbin	libbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 own	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chillun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive	De time	you					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	own in a quote	present	mek	libbin				you nsubj	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot libbin=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 175

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 175