Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 116

Wen night come, an ebryting on de plantation done gone bed, de Mossa, him tek one long white gown wuh ketch down ter eh foot, an eh pit um on, an eh gone ter de Ole Man house.

Who acts: Wen night, ebryting, Mossa · What happens: come, do, tek down, go · To what, where: ebryting, gone bed, one long white gown, eh

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 night, ebryting, Mossa), 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 night	compound
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ebryting	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ebryting	det
6	ebryting	ebryting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plantation	case
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 plantation	compound
9	plantation	plantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ebryting	nmod
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ebryting	acl
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bed	amod
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mossa	punct
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 Mossa	advmod
15	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ebryting	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tek	punct
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tek	nsubj
18	tek	tek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 gown	nummod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gown	amod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gown	amod
22	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tek	obj
23	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	22 gown	discourse
24	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gown	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	18 tek	compound:prt
26	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tek	obj
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 foot	amod
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ter	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 um	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 um	det
31	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 um	amod
32	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 um	compound
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ter	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	18 tek	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eh	punct
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eh	det
37	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tek	parataxis
38	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 eh	acl
39	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	38 gone	flat:foreign
40	de	de	ADP	_	43 house	case
41	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Man	compound
42	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 house	compound
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gone	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Wen night	a ebryting on de plantation and Mossa		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	participle	a ebryting on de plantation and Mossa not said here	gone bed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality
3	tek down	infinitive	Mossa	one long white gown and ketch	ter and eh foot and a eh pit um obj; a eh parataxis	tree rules
4	go	participle		a eh not said here	de Man house	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 116