Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 18

Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um out de yad.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: pick, knock out · To what, where: um, um ober

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 (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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pick	nsubj
2	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 um	compound
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eh	punct
5	eh	eh	INTJ	_	6 pick	discourse
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj
8	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eh	nummod
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 pick	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knock	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	13 knock	discourse
13	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pick	conj
14	um	um	X	_	15 ober	compound
15	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 um	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 um	det
18	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 um	amod
19	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ober	appos
21	out	out	ADP	_	13 knock	compound:prt
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 yad	compound
23	yad	yad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knock	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	infinitive	Eh	um				een eh obj	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary eh=Theme
2	knock out	infinitive	Eh not said here	um ober				de yad obj	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ober=Destination yad=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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 18