Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 118

De Ole Man yeddy say some body come ter him do, an wen eh tun roun fuh look, eh see one tall somebody all wrop up head an yez een white.

Who acts: Man yeddy, wen, eh tun roun · What happens: say, come, roun, look, see, wrop up · To what, where: body, somebody · 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 (Man yeddy, wen, eh tun roun), 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 Ole	compound
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Man	compound
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 yeddy	compound
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	ter	ter	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roun	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 roun	det
14	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roun	nsubj
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roun	amod
16	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roun	compound
17	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	nsubj
18	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	19 look	discourse
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	eh	eh	INTJ	_	22 see	discourse
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 somebody	nummod
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 somebody	amod
25	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 wrop	obl:unmarked
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 wrop	advmod
27	wrop	wrop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	ccomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 wrop	compound:prt
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wrop	obj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 yez	det
31	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	27 wrop	obj
32	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 white	amod
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 yez	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Man yeddy	some body		tree rules
2	come	infinitive			ter yeddy	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roun		wen			tree rules
4	look	present · do-support	a eh tun roun			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	infinitive	a eh tun roun not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	wrop up	present		somebody	head obj	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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 118