Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 144

Eh call een eh fren an wise man fuh help um pint out de tief an fine dat Ring, an dem cant.

Who acts: you, wise man fuh · What happens: call, help, um out · To what, where: een eh, pint · 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 (you, wise man fuh), 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	INTJ	_	2 call	discourse
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eh	nummod
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
5	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fuh	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fuh	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fuh	compound
9	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	nsubj
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
11	um	um	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
12	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 um	compound:prt
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 tief	compound
15	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	obj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Ring	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Ring	amod
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Ring	compound
19	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cant	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cant	det
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cant	compound
23	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Ring	appos
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	een eh	fren xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient
2	help	present	a wise man fuh			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	um out	infinitive	a wise man fuh not said here	pint	de tief obj; a fine dat Ring obj	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 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 144