Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 5

De mornin ob de fibe day de King git up soon, an pledjur ehself by tek er walk een eh gaden.

Who acts: you, ob · What happens: mornin, day, walk · To what, where: pledjur, een eh gaden

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 (you, ob), 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	X	Foreign=Yes	2 mornin	advmod
2	mornin	mornin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 walk	advcl
3	ob	ob	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ob	flat:foreign
5	fibe	fibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mornin	ccomp
7	de	de	ADP	_	9 git	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 git	compound
9	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mornin	obl
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 mornin	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pledjur	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pledjur	det
14	pledjur	pledjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mornin	obl
15	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pledjur	nmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 er	case
17	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	compound
18	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pledjur	nmod
19	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 gaden	nummod
21	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gaden	amod
22	gaden	gaden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walk	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mornin	gerund	you not said here	a pledjur ehself by tek er	de King git; soon property	tree rules
2	day		ob			tree rules
3	walk	imperative	you not said here	een eh gaden		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gaden=Trajectory

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 5