Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 14

De cunjur man rale glad, an de ting mek de King an all eh fren an de serbant bliebe say eh kin cunjur fur true.

Who acts: de serbant bliebe · What happens: say · To what, where: cunjur fur, De man rale · 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 (de serbant bliebe), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rale	compound
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rale	compound
4	rale	rale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rale	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ting	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ting	det
8	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ting	amod
9	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rale	conj
10	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ting	appos
11	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mek	flat
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mek	flat
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fren	det
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fren	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fren	amod
16	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ting	appos
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bliebe	det
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 bliebe	compound
19	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bliebe	compound
20	bliebe	bliebe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fren	acl:relcl
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kin	compound
23	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cunjur	compound
24	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fur	compound
25	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	obj
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fur	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a de serbant bliebe	cunjur fur					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fur=Topic

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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 14