Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

De nex mornin, wen one er dem serbant come down wid de King shoes, de cunjur man pint eh finger at um an eh say: “You duh one er de tief.”

Who acts: De nex mornin, de, eh, You · What happens: come down, finger, say, duh · To what, where: pint eh finger, um, er de tief · 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 nex mornin, de, eh, You), 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 mornin	compound
2	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mornin	compound
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wen	punct
5	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mornin	conj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 er	nummod
7	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 serbant	compound
8	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 serbant	compound
9	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mornin	conj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 wid	advmod
12	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	xcomp
13	de	de	ADP	_	15 shoes	case
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 shoes	compound
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 finger	punct
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 finger	nsubj
18	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	compound
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pint	compound
20	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 finger	compound
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finger	amod
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 um	case
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	obl
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 eh	det
26	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 finger	acl:relcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 duh	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 duh	punct
30	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 duh	nsubj
31	duh	duh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	ccomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 er	nummod
33	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tief	compound
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	35 tief	compound
35	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 duh	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	present	De nex mornin and wen and er dem serbant			wid property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finger		de				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh	pint eh finger not said here	um		tree rules
4	duh in a quote	present	You	er de tief			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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 16