Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 149

Mo na dat, eh prommus um big money ef eh git back de Ring widin de fibe day; but eh treaten um fuh kill um ef eh fail fuh fine um eenside dat time.

Who acts: prommus um · What happens: git back, treaten · To what, where: um, Mo na dat

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 (prommus 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	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dat	compound
2	na	na	X	_	3 dat	compound
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dat	punct
5	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 git	discourse
6	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 um	compound
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 git	nsubj
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 git	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ef	compound
10	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	compound
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 git	compound
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dat	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 git	advmod
14	de	de	ADP	_	16 widin	case
15	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 widin	compound
16	widin	widin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 git	nmod
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 day	advmod
18	fibe	fibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 day	compound
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 widin	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 treaten	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 treaten	cc
22	eh	eh	ADV	_	23 treaten	advmod
23	treaten	treaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dat	conj
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treaten	obj
25	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ef	amod
26	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 um	compound
27	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ef	compound
28	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fail	compound
29	eh	eh	X	_	30 fail	compound
30	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treaten	parataxis
31	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	30 fail	discourse
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
33	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eenside	compound
34	eenside	eenside	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dat	compound
35	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 time	compound
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fail	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	git back		prommus um					de Ring widin fibe day	tree rules
2	treaten	infinitive		um				ef eh fail and fine dat time parataxis	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 149

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 149