Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 76

Fus come de Deer, an eh try fuh open de do fuh git ter him pile er grass.

Who acts: Fus, open, bin · What happens: come, try, do, pile · To what, where: de, git, er 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: who acts (Fus, open, 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	Fus	fu	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 come	obl
4	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eh	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eh	det
7	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Deer	appos
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	10 open	discourse
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 do	nsubj
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 open	flat:foreign
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 try	parataxis
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	14 git	discourse
14	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
15	ter	ter	SCONJ	_	17 pile	mark
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pile	nsubj
17	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	advcl
18	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 grass	amod
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pile	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Fus	de	Deer vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	present	open	git		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality
4	pile	present	bin	er grass		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/76/

🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 76