Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 58

Eh always ready fuh mek big brag bout wuh him gwine do, but eh nebber does come up ter eh wud.

Who acts: mek, gwine, nebber · What happens: bout, do, come up · To what, where: eh

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 (mek, gwine, nebber), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ready	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 ready	advmod
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 bout	discourse
5	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bout	nsubj
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bout	amod
7	brag	brag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bout	compound
8	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ready	obl
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	10 him	discourse
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bout	nmod
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bout	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
15	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nebber	det
16	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 come	compound:prt
20	ter	ter	ADP	_	22 wud	case
21	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wud	det
22	wud	wud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bout		mek	eh		tree rules
2	do	present	gwine			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come up	present · do-support	eh nebber		ter eh wud	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 58