Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

De wud yent leff eh mouf befo Buh Alligatur trow open him mouf an ketch um, an chaw de life outer um.

Who acts: De · What happens: wu, trow · To what, where: yent eh mouf, open mouf

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), 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 wud	nsubj
2	wud	wu	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouf	amod
4	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eh	compound
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouf	compound
6	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wud	obj
7	befo	befo	ADP	_	8 Buh	case
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trow	obl
9	Alligatur	Alligatur	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Buh	flat
10	trow	trow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wud	parataxis
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mouf	amod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	nsubj
13	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trow	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
15	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mouf	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chaw	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chaw	det
19	chaw	chaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	appos
20	de	de	ADP	_	23 um	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
22	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 um	amod
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chaw	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wu	past	De	yent eh mouf					tree rules
2	trow	present		open mouf				befo Buh	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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 31