Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him will show um way eh kin git a good supper.

Who acts: Den · What happens: tell, come, show · To what, where: um fuh, um way · 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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
2	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fuh	compound
6	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
8	de	de	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shiny	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 show	det
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 show	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 show	aux
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
19	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obj
21	eh	eh	ADV	_	18 show	advmod
22	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 git	amod
23	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 supper	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 supper	amod
26	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Den	um fuh			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fuh=Recipient
2	come	present	Den not said here		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	future	den	um way		kin git obj; a good supper obj	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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 29