Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um an pint out de big yaller Rooster duh sleep een one low cedar tree.

Who acts: Eh, Buh Chanticleer, yaller · What happens: come, um, sleep

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, Buh Chanticleer, yaller), 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	3 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	de	de	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shiny	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 moon	punct
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Chanticleer	det
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Chanticleer	compound
13	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	nsubj
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pint	det
18	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	appos
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 pint	compound:prt
20	de	de	ADV	_	21 big	advmod
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sleep	amod
22	yaller	yaller	X	Foreign=Yes	25 sleep	nsubj
23	Rooster	Rooster	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sleep	compound
24	duh	duh	INTJ	_	25 sleep	discourse
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pint	conj
26	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sleep	flat
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 tree	nummod
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tree	amod
29	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 een	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	Eh	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	um		a Buh Chanticleer		a pint and big Rooster sleep appos	tree rules
3	sleep		yaller			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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 31