Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 147

De King tell um eh bin dis de man eh duh hunt fur, an eh want um fuh fine eh Ring.

Who acts: De, eh · What happens: tell, hunt, want · To what, where: um, eh, fur · 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 (De, eh), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
5	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dis	amod
6	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dis	compound
7	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 man	compound
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	compound
10	eh	eh	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind Typo=Yes	3 tell	iobj
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	12 hunt	discourse
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunt	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 eh	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
18	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 want	obj
19	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 Ring	discourse
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Ring	amod
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Ring	amod
22	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 want	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	De	um	eh	eh bin dis obj	tree rules
2	hunt	infinitive	De not said here	fur			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme
3	want	present	a eh	um		fine eh Ring xcomp	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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 147

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 147