Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 45

Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you go fuh fine um eh yent dedday.

Who acts: Nobody, you · What happens: know, go · To what, where: fuh ketch um, wen

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 (Nobody, 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fuh	advmod
4	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 um	amod
5	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	compound
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wuk	punct
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wuk	compound
9	eh	eh	X	_	10 wuk	compound
10	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	appos
11	onder	onder	ADV	_	13 groun	advmod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 groun	compound
13	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wuk	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wen	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wen	det
16	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wen	acl:relcl
19	fuh	fuh	ADV	_	20 fine	advmod
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 go	xcomp
21	um	um	ADP	Typo=Yes	24 dedday	case
22	eh	eh	X	_	21 um	goeswith
23	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dedday	amod
24	dedday	dedday	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fine	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody	fuh ketch um and a wen					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
2	go	present	you	a wen not said here				fine property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wen=Theme

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 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 45