Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 21

Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an crow, him do de same.

Who acts: you, hab · What happens: go off, do · To what, where: way, same

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 (you, hab), 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	INTJ	_	2 go	discourse
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl:unmarked
4	off	off	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eh	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	obl:unmarked
9	eh	eh	X	_	2 go	parataxis
10	yeddy	yeddy	X	_	9 eh	goeswith
11	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eh	flat
12	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flap	compound
13	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eh	compound
14	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wing	compound
15	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	flat
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 crow	det
17	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	parataxis
21	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 same	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 do	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	imperative	you not said here	way				off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	hab	de same					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 21