Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

De woice so sewere Buh Deer skade, an eh leff, an eh gone tell all dem tarruh animel say big Sperit gone tek de house way dem perwision done gedder.

Who acts: De woice, all, gone way dem perwision · What happens: go, tell, say, do · To what, where: eh, gedder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (De woice, all, gone way dem perwision), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	2 woice	compound
2	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 sewere	advmod
4	sewere	sewere	ADV	_	16 tell	advmod
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
6	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	skade	skade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	list
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leff	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leff	det
10	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leff	amod
11	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	list
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eh	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eh	det
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	appos
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 eh	acl
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 say	nsubj
18	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tarruh	compound
19	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 animel	compound
20	animel	animel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 all	nmod
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 say	ccomp
23	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 big	flat
24	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 perwision	amod
25	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 de	compound
26	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	compound
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perwision	compound
29	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perwision	compound
30	perwision	perwision	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Sperit	appos
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 perwision	acl
32	gedder	gedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	participle		a eh not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	De woice		Buh skade a eh leff nsubj; sewere property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	all tarruh animel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	do	participle	gone way dem perwision not said here	gedder		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gedder=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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 89