Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 139

One clean um one mornin, anurrur one clean um nex mornin, an de edder one clean um de nex.

Who acts: One clean um, one · What happens: anurrur, mornin

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 clean um, one), 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 um	nummod
2	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 um	amod
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anurrur	nsubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 um	flat
5	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 um	punct
7	anurrur	anurrur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 mornin	nsubj
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mornin	amod
10	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nex	compound
11	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mornin	compound
12	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anurrur	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 edder	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 edder	det
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 edder	compound
16	edder	edder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mornin	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 um	nummod
18	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 edder	appos
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 um	flat:foreign
21	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 anurrur	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	anurrur	infinitive	One clean um						tree rules
2	mornin		one					a de edder conj	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 139

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 139