Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 132

Nobody yent shum tel arter brukwus next mornin, an den eh tell ebry body say Det bin come fur um last night, but dat him bin dodge um.

Who acts: den eh, ebry body, Det · What happens: tell, say, come, bin · To what, where: ebry body, fur, dodge um, yent tel arter · 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 (den eh, ebry body, Det), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 arter	nsubj
2	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arter	amod
3	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tel	compound
4	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arter	compound
5	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	brukwus	brukwus	ADV	_	7 next	advmod
7	next	next	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 mornin	case
8	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eh	det
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 arter	parataxis
14	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 body	compound
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	xcomp
17	Det	Det	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Det	flat
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
20	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obj
21	um	um	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bin	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 bin	cc
26	dat	dat	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bin	obl
28	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	conj
29	dodge	dodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	compound
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bin	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a den eh	ebry body			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	infinitive	ebry body not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present	Det	fur	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme
4	bin	present	a den eh not said here	dodge um		dat eh	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 132