Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 34

De tree serbant too, wuh bin de tief, dem so happy cause de cunjur man yent spose dem ter de King dat dem mek present ter um too, an bin eh fren all dem life.

Who acts: De tree serbant, cunjur man · What happens: cause, ter · To what, where: de

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 tree serbant, 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 serbant	compound
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	compound
3	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cause	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 serbant	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tief	punct
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 tief	discourse
7	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tief	compound
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 bin	flat:foreign
9	tief	tief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dem	punct
11	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 serbant	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 happy	advmod
13	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dem	amod
14	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 cause	obj
16	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	compound
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	nsubj
18	yent	yent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ter	amod
19	spose	spose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	compound
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	compound
21	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cause	parataxis
22	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 King	compound
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dem	compound
24	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dem	compound
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	conj
26	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
27	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 um	amod
28	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dem	appos
30	too	too	ADV	_	29 um	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bin	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bin	det
33	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	conj
34	eh	eh	X	ExtPos=PROPN	33 bin	appos
35	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eh	flat
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 life	det
37	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 life	compound
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eh	flat
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	De tree serbant and bin tief and dem	de					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition de=Patient
2	ter		cunjur man					King dat dem conj; a bin 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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 34