Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 72

Eh lib day, eh eat, eh sleep, eh pledjur ehself, an eh fine eh bittle right ter eh han.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: eat · To what, where: sleep

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), 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	6 eat	nsubj
2	lib	lib	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	compound
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eh	punct
5	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sleep	punct
8	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sleep	det
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eh	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
12	pledjur	pledjur	X	Foreign=Yes	11 eh	vocative
13	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pledjur	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bittle	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bittle	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bittle	amod
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bittle	amod
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bittle	compound
19	bittle	bittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pledjur	appos
20	right	right	ADV	_	23 han	advmod
21	ter	ter	ADP	_	23 han	case
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 han	amod
23	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bittle	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive	Eh	eh sleep					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 72