Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 97

Dem yent bin git half way tru de swamp wen one big black Bear jump outer de bush an mek fur dem.

Who acts: tru swamp wen · What happens: jump, bush · To what, where: outer, mek fur dem, way

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 (tru swamp wen), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
2	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 git	amod
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 git	compound
4	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 way	advmod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	10 wen	amod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tru	flat
9	swamp	swamp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wen	amod
10	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jump	nsubj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Bear	nummod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jump	compound
15	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl:relcl
16	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jump	obj
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 outer	flat:foreign
18	bush	bush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 jump	advcl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dem	det
20	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 dem	compound
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dem	compound
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bush	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	infinitive	tru swamp wen	outer				one big black Bear compound	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme outer=Trajectory
2	bush	present	tru swamp wen not said here	a mek fur dem					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 97

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 97