Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 108

Den eh fren mek answer: “Eh bin tell me nebber fuh trus nobody wuh call ehself fren, an wuh gwine run luk er coward soon es trouble come.”

Who acts: bin, trus, fren, trouble · What happens: tell, call, run, come · To what, where: nebber, fren, ehself, luk, es, fren mek answer · 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 (bin, trus, fren, trouble), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
2	eh	eh	X	_	1 Den	flat
3	fren	fren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
4	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	Eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bin	det
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answer	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 call	discourse
14	trus	trus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	nsubj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 call	nsubj
16	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	17 call	discourse
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	parataxis
18	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	obj
19	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 run	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gwine	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gwine	det
22	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gwine	amod
23	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fren	conj
24	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 call	parataxis
25	luk	luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 run	obj
26	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 coward	advmod
27	coward	coward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 run	xcomp
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 run	advmod
29	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 run	parataxis
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 es	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	eh bin	nebber	fren		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nebber=Topic
2	call speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	trus	ehself		nobody nsubj	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ehself=Recipient
3	run in a quote	present	fren and a wuh gwine	luk		es parataxis; coward, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luk=Agent
4	come in a quote	present	trouble	es not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location e=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 108

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 108