Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 4

De cunjur man, him berry sad, an eh faid say eh gwine fail, an de King gwine tek eh head off.

Who acts: De cunjur man, eh faid, King · What happens: berry, say, head off · To what, where: gwine fail · 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 cunjur man, eh faid, 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	3 man	compound
2	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 berry	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 berry	punct
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 berry	nsubj
6	berry	berry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berry	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 faid	det
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 faid	compound
11	faid	faid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 berry	conj
13	eh	eh	INTJ	_	15 fail	discourse
14	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fail	compound
15	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 head	det
18	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 head	amod
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 head	nsubj
20	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	nsubj
21	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	compound
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fail	nmod
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 head	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 berry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	berry	present	De cunjur man		man nsubj; sad property	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	a eh faid	gwine fail		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fail=Topic
3	head off		King		gwine nsubj	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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 4