Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 143

Eh faid say ef eh cant git back eh gagement Ring all eh good luck gwine leff um.

Who acts: Eh, ef, eh cant git · What happens: fai, say, git, ring · To what, where: leff um · 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 (Eh, ef, eh cant git), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 faid	nsubj
2	faid	fai	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 faid	ccomp
4	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 git	nsubj
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
6	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
7	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 eh	advmod
9	eh	eh	ADV	_	11 Ring	advmod
10	gagement	gagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ring	compound
11	Ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 git	acl:relcl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 um	det
13	eh	eh	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 luck	amod
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gwine	compound
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leff	compound
17	leff	leff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 um	compound
18	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ring	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 faid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fai	past	Eh			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Eh not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	git		ef			tree rules
4	ring	infinitive	eh cant git not said here	all leff um	gagement compound	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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 143

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 143