Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

So eh say gen: “Me tell you me deef; come close; set on me nose, so me kin yeddy wuh you duh sing.”

Who acts: you, Me · What happens: say, tell, come, set · To what, where: gen, deef, me, nose · 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 (you, Me), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
2	eh	eh	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
11	deef	deef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
14	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 come	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 say	ccomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 set	obl
19	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 me	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 me	advmod
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 set	obl
23	kin	kin	ADP	_	24 yeddy	case
24	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
25	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 set	discourse
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 set	obj
27	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sing	amod
28	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	gen			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Me	deef	me	you iobj	tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive				close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set in a quote	participle		nose		on me; kin yeddy; me obl; you obj; duh sing obj	tree rules

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 29