Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “How you luk um?”

Who acts: you · What happens: do, eat, um · To what, where: Wen, um · 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 (you), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 done	nsubj
2	eh	eh	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	xcomp
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mout	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mout	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mout	amod
9	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mout	amod
10	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eh	compound
11	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mout	compound
12	mout	mout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 um	punct
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
15	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ax	compound
16	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 um	compound
17	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 um	punct
20	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 um	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 um	nsubj
22	luk	luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 um	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		Wen	Buh ax um obl	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		um and a eh duh eh mout		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient
3	um in a quote		you			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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 33