Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 106

Wen eh fine de Bear done gone fuh sho, eh holler ter him fren say: “Wuh de Bear bin tell you?

Who acts: Wen, fine de Bear, fren · What happens: eh, do, say, bear, tell · To what, where: fine de Bear, gone sho, holler, bin, you · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen, fine de Bear, fren), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bear	amod
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Bear	acl
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sho	amod
8	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 sho	discourse
9	sho	sho	NOUN	_	6 done	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holler	punct
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 holler	discourse
12	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl
13	ter	ter	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 holler	nmod
15	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eh	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Bear	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Bear	punct
19	Wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	21 Bear	discourse
20	de	de	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 Bear	aux
21	Bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
22	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Bear	obj
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Bear	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen	fine de Bear		tree rules
2	do	participle	fine de Bear not said here	gone sho		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sho=Eventuality
3	say speech: ask	present	fren	holler ter Wen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bear in a quote			bin		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 106