Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

De cunjur man, him gone right off ter de King, an eh tell um say him kin pint out way de Ring day.

Who acts: man, De cunjur man · What happens: go, say · To what, where: ter, de, way · 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 (man, De cunjur man), 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 man	compound
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 man	acl
7	right	right	ADV	_	9 ter	advmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 ter	case
9	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obj
10	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ter	appos
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 de	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 um	amod
15	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	kin	kin	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pint	nmod:poss
20	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	22 way	case
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obl
23	de	de	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 day	compound
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 way	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle	man	ter					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	De cunjur man and a eh tell um	de		way de Ring day		kin's pint obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme pint=Manner

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 28