Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 137

Dat King, him bin hab tree serbant wuh wait bout him table, an clean him shoes, an do wuhebber him want um fuh do.

Who acts: dere, Dat King, um · What happens: bin, wait, want, do · To what, where: tree serbant, table, um

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 (dere, Dat King, um), 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	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	compound
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 want	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bin	nsubj
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 King	parataxis
6	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 serbant	compound
8	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj
9	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	10 wait	discourse
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bin	conj
11	bout	bout	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	obl
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wait	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shoes	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shoes	det
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clean	obj
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 do	det
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
22	wuhebber	wuhebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	obj
26	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	27 do	discourse
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bin	present	dere	tree serbant		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent serbant=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	dere not said here	table	bout dere	tree rules
3	want	present · do-support	Dat King and a clean shoes	um	dere nsubj	tree rules
4	do not said to happen	infinitive	um not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 137