Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 146

Wen eh questun um, de man tell um say him bin a po man, an dat eh mek eh libbin by cunjur.

Who acts: Wen questun um, um · What happens: tell, say, bin · To what, where: dat eh, man, po man · 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 (Wen questun um, 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
2	eh	eh	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	dep
3	questun	questun	X	_	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	conj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obj
12	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	compound
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bin	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eh	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eh	det
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eh	compound
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 eh	nsubj
21	eh	eh	X	_	19 eh	appos
22	libbin	libbin	X	_	21 eh	goeswith
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 cunjur	case
24	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eh	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Wen questun um and de man	a dat eh	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	um	man	tree rules
3	bin	infinitive	um not said here	a po man	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=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 146

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 146