Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 30

De fool Bud come an light on eh nose, an eh holler gen: “Yaller-belly Alligatur ferry me ober.”

Who acts: De fool, Yaller belly · What happens: come, ferry · To what, where: light, eh nose, bex

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 fool, Yaller belly), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fool	compound
2	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	Bud	Bud	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fool	appos
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nose	amod
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gen	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gen	det
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gen	amod
13	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gen	compound
14	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nose	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 belly	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 belly	punct
17	Yaller	Yaller	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 belly	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Yaller	punct
19	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ferry	nsubj
20	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 belly	appos
21	ferry	ferry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gen	acl:relcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ferry	obj
23	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ferry	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	De fool	a light		eh nose and a eh holler gen			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
2	ferry in a quote	infinitive	Yaller belly	bex				ober obj	vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme ober=Result

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 30