Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 10

Eh say ter um, moöber, dat eh doubt um, an dat eh yent bliebe eh kin cunjur none tall; dat ef eh kin cunjur eh mus tell um right off wuh eh got een him hat.

Who acts: Eh, dat · What happens: say, mus, tell, get · To what, where: ter um, um, een · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, dat), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moöber	punct
6	moöber	moöber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 um	punct
8	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
14	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eh	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	conj
16	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eh	amod
17	bliebe	bliebe	X	_	18 eh	compound
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kin	compound
19	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cunjur	compound
20	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 none	compound
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 tall	nsubj
22	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 yent	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 mus	punct
24	dat	dat	X	Foreign=Yes	30 mus	nsubj
25	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eh	compound
26	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kin	compound
27	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cunjur	compound
28	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eh	compound
29	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mus	compound
30	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obl
31	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
32	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obj
33	right	right	ADV	_	31 tell	advmod
34	off	off	ADP	_	37 got	mark
35	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	37 got	discourse
36	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	nsubj
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	ccomp
38	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 got	obj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 got	obj
40	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Eh	ter um and moöber and eh doubt um and a dat eh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic
2	mus		dat			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present		um	right property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get	past	eh	een	mus obj; hat obj	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 7, sentence 10

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 10