Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 100

Me good fren ter Buh Porpus, an wen we git ter de ribber bank me gwine tell Buh Porpus leh we hab er game, an see who kin pull de strongis.

Who acts: Me, we, good fren · What happens: fren, bank, tell, hab, see, pull · To what, where: me, Buh leh, game, de strongis · 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 (Me, we, good fren), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fren	nsubj
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fren	amod
3	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	nsubj
4	ter	ter	ADP	_	5 Buh	case
5	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fren	nmod
6	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Buh	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wen	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wen	det
9	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fren	conj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bank	nsubj
11	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	nsubj
12	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	15 bank	nsubj
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 ter	flat:foreign
14	ribber	ribber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	compound
15	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wen	acl:relcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bank	obj
17	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bank	conj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 leh	compound
20	Porpus	Porpus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Buh	flat
21	leh	leh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hab	nsubj
23	hab	hab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
24	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 game	nmod:poss
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hab	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 see	det
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	advcl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 pull	nsubj
30	kin	kin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pull	nsubj
31	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 see	ccomp
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 strongis	compound
33	strongis	strongi	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pull	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fren		Me		ter Buh; a wen conj	tree rules
2	bank		we	me	git nsubj; gwine conj	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	good fren and a wen	Buh leh		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent leh=Recipient clause=Topic
4	hab	present	we	er's game		tree rules
5	see	infinitive	good fren and a wen not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	pull	present		de strongis	who nsubj	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strongi=Theme

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 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 100