Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 148

Eh mek um quaintun bout wen de Ring tuk, an who eh tink tief um; an eh say eh gwine gie um fibe day time fuh pint out de man wuh bin tek de Ring, an mek um tun um.

Who acts: quaintun bout wen, eh, eh gwine, pint · What happens: tink, say, gie, tek · To what, where: tief um, quaintun bout wen · 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 (quaintun bout wen, eh, eh gwine, pint), 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	6 wen	nsubj
2	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	flat
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quaintun	compound
4	quaintun	quaintun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wen	compound
5	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wen	compound
6	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	de	de	ADP	_	9 tuk	case
8	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tuk	compound
9	tuk	tuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wen	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tink	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tink	det
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tink	nsubj
13	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 tink	discourse
14	tink	tink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wen	conj
15	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tink	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 eh	det
19	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wen	parataxis
21	eh	eh	X	_	22 gwine	compound
22	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gie	nsubj
23	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 say	ccomp
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	compound
25	fibe	fibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	compound
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	compound
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gie	obj
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	29 pint	discourse
29	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tek	nsubj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 pint	compound:prt
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 man	compound
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tek	nsubj
33	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tek	amod
34	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tek	compound
35	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
36	de	de	ADP	_	37 Ring	case
37	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 tek	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 um	punct
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 um	det
40	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 um	compound
41	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tun	compound
42	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 um	compound
43	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tek	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tink	infinitive	quaintun bout wen Eh de Ring tuk	tief um			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gie	present	eh gwine		time		tree rules
4	tek		pint			de Ring; de man nsubj; a mek tun um conj	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 148

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 148