Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 4

Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out berry triflin.

Who acts: Ef, you, eh · What happens: do, chillun, shame, tun out · To what, where: gwine, berry triflin

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 (Ef, you, 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Ef	flat
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chillun	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 chillun	nsubj
6	chillun	chillun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
7	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chillun	obj
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gwine	appos
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 shame	nsubj
10	shame	shame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gwine	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tun	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eh	det
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tun	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tun	aux
15	tun	tun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chillun	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 tun	compound:prt
17	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 triflin	compound
18	triflin	triflin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tun	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	Ef		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chillun	present	you	gwine	tree rules
3	shame	present	you	gwine not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gwine=Experiencer
4	tun out	future	a eh	berry triflin	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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 4