Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 41

Den eh weigh de cheese gen een de scale, an eh tek um out an eh cut off narrur slice, an eh pit um one side an eh say dat fuh de jedge.

Who acts: eh · What happens: cut off, say · To what, where: dat fuh, de cheese gen · 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 (eh), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 weigh	compound
2	eh	eh	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Den	flat
3	weigh	weigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gen	nsubj
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gen	amod
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gen	compound
6	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 gen	flat
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 scale	compound
9	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gen	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 um	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 um	det
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 um	amod
13	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 um	compound
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gen	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 um	compound:prt
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 eh	det
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 um	appos
18	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 slice	amod
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	narrur	narrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slice	compound
21	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pit	punct
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pit	det
24	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pit	amod
25	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slice	appos
26	um	um	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 side	nummod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eh	det
30	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pit	acl:relcl
32	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fuh	compound
33	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 fuh	flat:foreign
35	jedge	jedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fuh	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	participle							vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh	dat fuh and jedge				um one side	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fuh=Topic

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 41