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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

Eh gedder water in piggin an calabash fuh lass um, an den eh git two oncommon big horn, an eh gone eenside an fassen up de do, an mek ehself saterfy.

Who acts: eh, two oncommon big horn · What happens: go, fassen up, do · To what, where: gone eenside, eh git, fuh lass um

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, two oncommon big horn), 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

compoundcompoundnsubjcasenmoddetnsubjamodcompoundpunctdetcompoundcompoundapposnummodamodamodnsubjpunctdetapposamodobldetacl:relclcompound:prtflatacl:relclpunctdetcompoundflatconjpunctrootEhPROPNgedderNOUNwaterNOUNinADPpigginNOUNanDETcalabashNOUNfuhADJlassNOUNumNOUN,PUNCTanDETdenNOUNehNOUNgitNOUNtwoNUMoncommonADJbigADJhornNOUN,PUNCTanDETehNOUNgoneVERBeensideNOUNanDETfassenVERBupADPdeXdoVERB,PUNCTanDETmekPROPNehselfPRONsaterfyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EhEhPROPNNumber=Sing3 watercompound
2geddergedderNOUNNumber=Sing3 watercompound
3waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing10 umnsubj
4ininADP_5 piggincase
5pigginpigginNOUNNumber=Sing3 waternmod
6anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 umdet
7calabashcalabashNOUNNumber=Sing10 umnsubj
8fuhfuhADJDegree=Pos10 umamod
9lasslassNOUNNumber=Sing10 umcompound
10umumNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
11,,PUNCT_15 gitpunct
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 gitdet
13dendenNOUNNumber=Sing14 ehcompound
14ehehNOUNNumber=Sing15 gitcompound
15gitgitNOUNNumber=Sing10 umappos
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 hornnummod
17oncommononcommonADJDegree=Pos19 hornamod
18bigbigADJDegree=Pos19 hornamod
19hornhornNOUNNumber=Sing29 donsubj
20,,PUNCT_22 ehpunct
21anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 ehdet
22ehehNOUNNumber=Sing19 hornappos
23gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 eensideamod
24eensideeensideNOUNNumber=Sing26 fassenobl
25anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 fassendet
26fassenfassenVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 ehacl:relcl
27upupADP_26 fassencompound:prt
28dedeXForeign=Yes26 fassenflat
29dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 gitacl:relcl
30,,PUNCT_34 saterfypunct
31anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 saterfydet
32mekMEKPROPNNumber=Sing34 saterfycompound
33ehselfehselfPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 mekflat
34saterfysaterfyNOUNNumber=Sing10 umconj
35..PUNCT_10 umpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1goparticiplevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2fassen uppresenta eh not said heregone eensidetree rules
3dopresenttwo oncommon big horna eh git not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality

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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