Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 32

Wid dat, de King mek one er him serbant ketch de gobbler an rip open eh craw, an day, sho nuff, was de Ring.

Who acts: Wid King mek, rip, open eh craw · What happens: er, craw, be · To what, where: man, de Ring

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 (Wid King mek, rip, open eh craw), 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	Wid	Wid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mek	compound
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wid	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 de	punct
4	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wid	flat
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mek	compound
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 er	nsubj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mek	flat
8	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 er	obj
10	serbant	serbant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gobbler	amod
11	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 de	compound
12	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gobbler	compound
13	gobbler	gobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 er	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 craw	det
15	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 craw	nsubj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 craw	amod
17	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 craw	compound
18	craw	craw	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ring	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 craw	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nuff	punct
23	sho	sho	NOUN	_	24 nuff	compound
24	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 craw	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nuff	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Ring	cop
27	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Ring	amod
28	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gobbler	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	er	present	Wid King mek	man	serbant de gobbler conj	tree rules
2	craw		rip		sho nuff appos	tree rules
3	is a	past	a open eh craw and a day	de Ring		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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 32