Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 99

De woice soun so outlandish, an eh come wid sich er big noise, de beastises all conclude wuh Buh Deer bin tell dem bin so, an dat de Sperit, him bin tek persession er de house.

Who acts: eh, wid sich, Buh Deer · What happens: come, conclude, tell, bin · To what, where: dem bin, tek persession · 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 (eh, wid sich, Buh Deer), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 soun	compound
2	woice	woice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soun	compound
3	soun	soun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outlandish	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 outlandish	advmod
5	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eh	det
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 outlandish	conj
10	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sich	amod
11	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 conclude	nsubj
12	er	er	ADV	_	13 big	advmod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noise	amod
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sich	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beastises	punct
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 beastises	compound
17	beastises	beastis	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 conclude	nsubj
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 conclude	advmod
19	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	parataxis
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	24 tell	discourse
21	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Deer	compound
22	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tell	nsubj
23	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Deer	flat
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 conclude	conj
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bin	compound
26	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	24 tell	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dat	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dat	det
30	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obl
31	de	de	ADP	_	32 Sperit	case
32	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dat	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bin	punct
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bin	nsubj
35	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	conj
36	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 persession	compound
37	persession	persession	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bin	obj
38	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	40 house	amod
39	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 er	flat:foreign
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bin	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 outlandish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	a eh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	conclude	present	wid sich and big noise		de beastises nsubj; all property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	Buh Deer	dem bin	a dat de Sperit obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bin=Recipient
4	bin	present	eh	tek persession	er house obj	tree rules

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 99

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 99