Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 136

One time dere was a King wuh bin done git marry, an eh bin hab one fine Ring wuh him bin call eh gagement Ring.

Who acts: One time dere, wuh bin, dere · What happens: be, do, marry, call · To what, where: wuh bin, git, gagement Ring · 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 (One time dere, wuh bin, dere), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dere	nummod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dere	compound
3	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bin	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bin	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wuh	compound
7	wuh	wuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	compound
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bin	acl
10	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obj
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 done	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hab	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hab	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hab	amod
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hab	compound
16	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	appos
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 Ring	nummod
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Ring	amod
19	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hab	appos
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	23 call	discourse
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 call	nsubj
22	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 call	compound
23	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hab	parataxis
24	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Ring	det
25	gagement	gagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Ring	compound
26	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 call	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	One time dere	a wuh bin	a eh bin hab appos	tree rules
2	do	participle	a wuh bin not said here	git		tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	a wuh bin not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	call	present	dere	eh gagement Ring	bin compound	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient

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 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 136