Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 15

De tree serbant wuh bin een cohoot fuh tief de Ring, an wuh bin know all bout um, biggin fuh faid say dem bin gwine fuh git fine out.

Who acts: bin, De tree serbant, faid · What happens: tief, know, say · To what, where: bout um, dem bin gwine · 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 (bin, De tree serbant, faid), 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	3 serbant	compound
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	compound
3	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	nsubj
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 tief	discourse
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tief	nsubj
6	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bin	flat
7	cohoot	cohoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tief	compound
8	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tief	amod
9	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	nmod
10	de	de	ADP	_	11 Ring	case
11	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tief	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bin	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bin	det
14	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bin	amod
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	conj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 um	det
18	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	compound
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 biggin	punct
21	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 um	conj
22	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	16 know	discourse
23	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	parataxis
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gwine	compound
26	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gwine	compound
27	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
28	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 say	discourse
29	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	parataxis
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 git	amod
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 fine	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tief		bin		de Ring	tree rules
2	know	present	De tree serbant and a wuh bin	all bout um and biggin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	faid	dem bin gwine	git parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gwine=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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 15