Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 115

De Obersheer him yeddy wuh de Ole Man bin a pray fuh, an eh tell de Mossa, an dem fix plan fuh hab fun long de Ole Man.

Who acts: Obersheer yeddy, hab · What happens: bin, man · To what, where: pray fuh

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 (Obersheer yeddy, hab), 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	2 Obersheer	compound
2	Obersheer	Obersheer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 yeddy	compound
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Obersheer	nmod
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	nsubj
5	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 bin	discourse
6	de	de	ADP	_	8 Man	case
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Man	amod
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	obl
9	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fuh	det
11	pray	pray	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fuh	compound
12	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tell	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	amod
16	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fuh	appos
17	de	de	ADP	_	18 Mossa	case
18	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plan	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plan	det
21	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plan	compound
22	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plan	compound
23	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fuh	conj
24	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	30 Man	discourse
25	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Man	nsubj
26	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Man	amod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Man	amod
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 Man	compound
29	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Man	amod
30	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	infinitive	Obersheer yeddy	a pray fuh and a dem fix plan				de Ole Man	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuh=Theme
2	man		hab						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 6, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 115