Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 18

De nex mornin wen de tarrur serbant fetch de King shoes down fuh clean um, de cunjur man pint him finger at um an eh say: “You duh nudder one er dem tief.”

Who acts: de, de cunjur man, eh, You · What happens: fetch, pint, say, nudder · To what, where: de, um, nex mornin wen · 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, de cunjur man, 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	4 wen	nsubj
2	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	compound
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	compound
4	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 fetch	nsubj
6	tarrur	tarrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	compound
7	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	compound
8	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	parataxis
9	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	appos
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	compound
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fetch	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 shoes	compound:prt
13	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 um	amod
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 um	amod
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoes	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pint	punct
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 man	compound
18	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	compound
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pint	nsubj
20	pint	pint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fetch	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pint	obj
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pint	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 um	case
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pint	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	24 um	acl:relcl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 nudder	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 nudder	punct
30	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 nudder	nsubj
31	duh	duh	INTJ	_	32 nudder	discourse
32	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	appos
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 dem	nummod
34	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dem	compound
35	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tief	compound
36	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nudder	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 nudder	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 nudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch		de			King shoes and fuh clean um conj	tree rules
2	pint	past	de cunjur man	de	um	finger obj	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	a eh	um not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent um=Topic
4	nudder in a quote		You			dem tief conj	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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 18