Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 31

De King him do so, an as de tukrey bin er walk pass, de conjur man pint out one big tukrey-gobbler an tell de King say him hab de Ring een him craw.

Who acts: De King, one, King · What happens: do, walk, gobbler, say · To what, where: pass, tell, man · 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 King, one, King), 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	2 King	compound
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 King	nmod
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 er	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 er	nsubj
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 bin	case
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bin	amod
10	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bin	compound
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 an	nmod
12	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 do	advcl
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 er	xcomp
14	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pint	punct
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 pint	compound
17	conjur	conjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	compound
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pint	compound
19	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 er	parataxis
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 pint	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 gobbler	nsubj
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gobbler	amod
23	tukrey	tukrey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gobbler	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 tukrey	punct
25	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pint	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tell	det
27	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gobbler	obj
28	de	de	ADP	_	30 say	mark
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 say	nsubj
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	acl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 say	obj
32	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
33	de	de	ADP	_	34 Ring	case
34	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 hab	nmod
35	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hab	list
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 een	nmod:unmarked
37	craw	craw	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 een	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	De King man			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	infinitive	De King man not said here	pass		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pass=Trajectory
3	gobbler		one	a tell		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	King	man	hab obj	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme hab=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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 31