Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 99

De tarruh fren bin yeddy say Bear no gwine eat dead people, so him leddown on de groun, an hole eh bref, an shet eh yeye, an mek out say him bin dead.

Who acts: fren bin yeddy, gwine · What happens: say, bear, eat, bin · To what, where: dead people, him leddown · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fren bin yeddy, gwine), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	6 say	advmod
2	tarruh	tarruh	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
3	fren	fren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yeddy	amod
4	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yeddy	compound
5	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 gwine	det
9	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	nsubj
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Bear	ccomp
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leddown	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 leddown	advmod
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leddown	compound
16	leddown	leddown	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 groun	case
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 groun	compound
19	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leddown	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bref	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bref	det
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eh	compound
23	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bref	compound
24	bref	bref	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groun	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 yeye	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 yeye	det
27	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eh	compound
28	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 yeye	compound
29	yeye	yeye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groun	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mek	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mek	det
32	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
33	out	out	ADV	_	34 say	advmod
34	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 say	obj
36	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 say	xcomp
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bin	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	fren bin yeddy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bear	infinitive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	eat	present	no gwine	dead people		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
4	say speech: assert	present		him leddown on de groun and a eh bref and a eh yeye	a mek obl; gwine obj; out property	tree rules
5	bin	infinitive			dead property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 99