Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 63

De Deer, de Elephant, de Cow, dem gedder an pack way grass an leaf.

To what, where: way grass

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: 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 Deer	compound
2	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grass	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Elephant	punct
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 Elephant	case
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Deer	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Cow	punct
7	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Cow	compound
8	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gedder	punct
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gedder	compound
11	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	nsubj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	compound
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	compound
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leaf	det
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 grass	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 63