Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

De Bear come up ter um, an smell um, an tun um ober, an try fuh ketch eh bref.

Who acts: De · What happens: come up

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De), 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 come	nsubj
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	ter	ter	ADP	_	6 um	case
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 um	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 um	det
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 um	compound
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ober	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ober	det
13	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 um	compound
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ober	compound
15	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 try	det
18	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ober	conj
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 bref	discourse
20	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	compound
21	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bref	compound
22	bref	bref	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ober	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present	De					ter um and a smell um and a um ober and a try and eh bref	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 100