Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

Eh notus close, an wen eh yeddy de woice gen eh see er Blue-Jay bin er talk um een de tree.

Who acts: Eh notus · What happens: see

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 notus), 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 notus	compound
2	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	nsubj
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 notus	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yeddy	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 yeddy	det
6	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eh	compound
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yeddy	compound
8	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 notus	conj
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 yeddy	flat:foreign
10	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
11	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yeddy	obj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	er	er	CCONJ	_	20 talk	cc
15	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 talk	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Blue	punct
17	Jay	Jay	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 talk	compound
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Jay	flat
19	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 talk	amod
20	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	conj
21	um	um	ADP	_	22 een	case
22	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 talk	nmod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 tree	compound
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 een	nmod:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Eh notus and a eh yeddy woice gen eh					Blue Jay er talk um een de tree conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 20