Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 69

Soon es de house full, an de do shet, an ebry body leff, eh slip een de house an pit eh yeye on ebry ting, an mek up eh mine fuh lib topper wuh all dem people bin gedder.

Who acts: Soon es, mek, dem people · What happens: do, topper, bin · To what, where: shet, gedder

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 (Soon es, mek, dem people), 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	Soon	soon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 es	amod
2	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 es	nmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 de	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 de	det
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 es	conj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leff	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 leff	det
13	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 leff	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leff	compound
15	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shet	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 slip	punct
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 slip	amod
18	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leff	appos
19	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 slip	flat
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 house	compound
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slip	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 yeye	det
23	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	compound
24	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yeye	compound
25	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	appos
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 ting	case
27	ebry	ebry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ting	amod
28	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yeye	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 topper	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 topper	det
31	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 topper	nsubj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 mek	compound:prt
33	eh	eh	ADV	_	37 topper	advmod
34	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 topper	nsubj
35	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 topper	amod
36	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 topper	compound
37	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
38	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	42 bin	discourse
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 people	det
40	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 people	compound
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bin	nsubj
42	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 topper	acl:relcl
43	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bin	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Soon es de house and a de	shet and a ebry body leff		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shet=Eventuality
2	topper		mek		mine nsubj	tree rules
3	bin	present	all dem people	gedder		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gedder=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 69

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 69