Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 114

Eh constant duh pray, so people kin yeddy um, dat Det would come an cahr way eh Mossa, an eh Mistis, an de Obersheer.

Who acts: constant duh, people · What happens: pray, come · To what, where: cahr way

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 (constant duh, people), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 constant	discourse
2	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duh	amod
3	duh	duh	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pray	nsubj
4	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
8	kin	kin	ADP	_	10 um	case
9	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 um	compound
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dat	punct
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 um	conj
13	Det	Det	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dat	appos
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pray	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	compound
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obj
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	20 Mossa	discourse
20	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 way	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eh	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 eh	det
23	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Mossa	appos
24	Mistis	Mistis	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 eh	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 de	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 de	det
27	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Mistis	appos
28	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mistis	flat
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	present	constant duh						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	come	would	people kin yeddy um and dat	a cahr way					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 114