Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 80

Den eh call fuh meat, an wegetable, an all kind er seaznin, an eh stir um an eh cook um all togerrur, an eh did mek er nice soup.

Who acts: Den eh call · What happens: er · To what, where: nice soup

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 (Den eh call), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
3	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 er	nsubj
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	5 meat	discourse
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wegetable	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wegetable	det
8	wegetable	wegetable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 call	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seaznin	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 seaznin	det
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seaznin	det
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seaznin	amod
13	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seaznin	compound
14	seaznin	seaznin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 um	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 um	det
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 um	amod
18	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seaznin	parataxis
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cook	det
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cook	amod
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	appos
23	um	um	ADV	_	25 togerrur	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 togerrur	det
25	togerrur	togerrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cook	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eh	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eh	det
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seaznin	conj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 er	aux
30	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 er	nsubj
31	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soup	amod
33	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 er	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	er	past · do-support	Den eh call and meat and a kind er seaznin a eh stir um and a eh	nice soup				mek nsubj	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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 80