Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 21

Dat same Blue-Jay bin day de ebenin befo, an bin er see an er yeddy all wuh happne, but de leely Gal an de Alligatur nebber bin know.

Who acts: you, Gal nebber bin · What happens: see, know · To what, where: er yeddy

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, Gal nebber bin), 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	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
3	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Blue	punct
5	Jay	Jay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bin	compound
6	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl:unmarked
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 befo	compound
9	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 befo	compound
10	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 er	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 er	det
13	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	compound
14	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 befo	conj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 yeddy	det
17	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 yeddy	compound
18	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 happne	det
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	21 happne	discourse
21	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 know	cc
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 leely	advmod
25	leely	leely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Gal	amod
26	Gal	Gal	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 bin	compound
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 de	det
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 Gal	flat:foreign
29	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Gal	flat
30	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bin	compound
31	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 know	nsubj
32	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	a er yeddy			day	all happne obj	tree rules
2	know	present	Gal nebber bin						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 21