Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 55

Arter eh done eat er hebby dinner, eh gone gen tel supper time, wen eh come back an eat er hebby supper, an den eh leddown der bed.

Who acts: wen eh · What happens: do, eat, come back · To what, where: Arter, hebby dinner, hebby supper

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 (wen 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	Arter	Arter	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	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 dinner	advmod
6	hebby	hebby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dinner	compound
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
9	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 time	discourse
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
11	gen	gen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
12	tel	tel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	compound
13	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	compound
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eh	compound
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	parataxis
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eat	det
21	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
22	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 supper	advmod
23	hebby	hebby	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 supper	compound
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leddown	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 leddown	det
27	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eh	compound
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leddown	compound
29	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 supper	appos
30	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 bed	amod
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leddown	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past · passive		Arter	time	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		hebby dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	come back	present	wen eh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	wen eh not said here	hebby supper		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 55