Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 117

Eh push de do open, an day bin de Ole Man duh siddown on eh bench duh nod by de fire.

Who acts: you, de · What happens: push, fire · To what, where: de, eh bench

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 (you, de), 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 push	discourse
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 push	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 push	xcomp
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bin	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bin	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	compound
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl
10	de	de	ADP	_	12 Man	case
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Man	amod
12	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bin	nmod
13	duh	duh	INTJ	_	14 siddown	discourse
14	siddown	siddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bench	case
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bench	amod
17	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl
18	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nod	amod
19	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bench	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fire	nmod:poss
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	de		eh bench and duh nod		by de's fire; a day bin de Ole Man obl; siddown obl	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent de=Theme on bench=Trajectory
2	fire		de						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 117

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 117