Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 121

De Sperit, wuh bin de Mossa dress up een de white gown wuh kibber um all ober, mek answer way down een him troat: “Duh me, Det, wuh you bin a pray fuh.”

Who acts: De Sperit, mek, you · What happens: dress up, answer, een, troat, bin · To what, where: een white gown, way, Sperit, pray fuh · 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 (De Sperit, mek, you), 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 Sperit	compound
2	Sperit	Sperit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dress	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
4	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bin	amod
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sperit	appos
6	de	de	ADP	_	7 Mossa	case
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bin	nmod
8	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 dress	compound:prt
10	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gown	amod
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 een	flat:foreign
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gown	amod
13	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	obj
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 gown	discourse
15	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gown	conj
16	um	um	ADP	_	18 ober	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ober	det
18	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kibber	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answer	punct
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 answer	nsubj
21	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dress	conj
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answer	obj
23	down	down	ADV	_	24 een	advmod
24	een	een	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 answer	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 een	obj
26	troat	troat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 een	xcomp
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 me	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 me	punct
29	Duh	duh	INTJ	_	30 me	discourse
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dress	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Det	punct
32	Det	Det	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 me	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bin	punct
34	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	36 bin	discourse
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 bin	nsubj
36	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dress	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 fuh	det
38	pray	pray	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fuh	compound
39	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bin	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dress	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress up	present	De Sperit	een white gown and kibber um all ober	me obl	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	mek	way		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	een	past	mek not said here	Sperit	down property	tree rules
4	troat	infinitive	mek not said here			tree rules
5	bin in a quote	present	you	a pray fuh		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuh=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 121

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 121