Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 75

Fros fall, an de animel biggin fuh tink bout dem perwision wuh dem bin lay up een de house.

Who acts: Fros, de animel biggin, dem bin · What happens: fall, tink, lay up · To what, where: dem perwision, een house

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 (Fros, de animel biggin, dem bin), 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	Fros	fro	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tink	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 biggin	det
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 biggin	compound
6	animel	animel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 biggin	compound
7	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tink	nsubj
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 tink	discourse
9	tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fall	parataxis
10	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dem	compound
11	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perwision	compound
12	perwision	perwision	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tink	obj
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 lay	discourse
14	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bin	compound
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tink	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 lay	compound:prt
18	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	20 house	amod
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 een	flat
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fall	present	Fros		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tink	infinitive	a de animel biggin	dem perwision	tree rules
3	lay up	present	dem bin	een house	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Result

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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 75