Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

Wen eh pit de cheese back een de scale, an hole um up gen, Buh Cat an Buh Rat, dem bofe call out: “Hole on, Jedge!

Who acts: Wen, hole · What happens: scale, um up, call out, hole on · To what, where: gen, dem bofe · 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 (Wen, hole), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scale	nsubj
2	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pit	det
3	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scale	nsubj
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 cheese	case
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pit	nmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 een	advmod
7	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 scale	nummod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 scale	compound
9	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 um	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	nsubj
13	um	um	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 scale	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 um	compound:prt
15	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Cat	punct
17	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cat	compound
18	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scale	appos
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Rat	det
20	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Rat	compound
21	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cat	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bofe	punct
23	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bofe	compound
24	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
25	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 call	compound:prt
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Hole	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Hole	punct
29	Hole	hole	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 call	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	29 Hole	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Jedge	punct
32	Jedge	Jedge	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hole	vocative
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scale		Wen		eh pit de cheese nsubj; Buh Cat appos	tree rules
2	um up	infinitive	a hole	gen		tree rules
3	call out speech: express	present		dem bofe		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hole on in a quote	infinitive			Jedge vocative	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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 43