Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 178

Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh murrer yent gwine cahr um no furder, an dat dem haffer shif fuh demself, dem try eh wing an sail off een de element duh hunt bittle.

Who acts: you, eh wing · What happens: fly, try, hunt · To what, where: Wid, dem, bittle

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 (you, eh wing), 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	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl:unmarked
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wid	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wid	punct
4	eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 fly	discourse
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 dem	case
7	onder	onder	ADV	_	8 dem	advmod
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 try	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bud	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bud	det
11	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bud	amod
12	noung	noung	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bud	compound
13	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dem	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wen	punct
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bud	conj
16	eh	eh	ADV	_	17 fine	advmod
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cahr	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 fine	compound:prt
19	eh	eh	ADV	_	20 murrer	advmod
20	murrer	murre	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 cahr	amod
21	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cahr	amod
22	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cahr	compound
23	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wen	conj
24	um	um	ADP	_	26 furder	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 furder	det
26	furder	furder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cahr	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shif	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shif	det
29	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dem	compound
30	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shif	compound
31	haffer	haffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shif	compound
32	shif	shif	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cahr	conj
33	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	32 shif	discourse
34	demself	demself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 shif	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dem	punct
36	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cahr	conj
37	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	advcl
38	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wing	amod
39	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hunt	nsubj
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 sail	det
41	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hunt	nsubj
42	off	off	ADP	_	45 element	case
43	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 element	nummod
44	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 element	amod
45	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sail	nmod
46	duh	duh	INTJ	_	47 hunt	discourse
47	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 try	parataxis
48	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hunt	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here	Wid			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	present	you not said here		dem		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hunt	infinitive	eh wing	bittle		a sail off een de element nsubj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bittle=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 178

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 178