Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 145

One day de King notus er strange man duh walk bout him gaden, an eh sen an hab um brung ter um.

Who acts: day King notus · What happens: walk · To what, where: gaden

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 (day King notus), 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	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notus	compound
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 notus	compound
5	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nsubj
6	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 strange	advmod
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	nsubj
9	duh	duh	INTJ	_	10 walk	discourse
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	bout	bout	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walk	obl
13	gaden	gaden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sen	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sen	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sen	amod
17	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gaden	appos
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
19	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sen	appos
21	brung	brung	X	Foreign=Yes	20 um	dep
22	ter	ter	X	_	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	infinitive	day King notus	gaden				bout man; strange man nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gaden=Trajectory

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 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 145