Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

Eh call een eh fren fuh consult, but es de body done strip, an eh head done cut off an gone, nobody could mek up eh mine who de tief bin.

Who acts: you, es, nobody · What happens: call, consult, do, strip, cut off, mek up · To what, where: een eh, eh head, mine · 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 (you, es, nobody), 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	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 call	discourse
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eh	nummod
4	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
5	fren	fren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eh	amod
6	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	7 consult	discourse
7	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fren	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strip	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 strip	cc
10	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 strip	nsubj
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 es	flat:foreign
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strip	compound
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 strip	amod
14	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 head	det
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 head	amod
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strip	appos
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 head	acl
20	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 done	xcomp
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gone	det
23	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cut	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mek	punct
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 mek	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 mek	aux
27	mek	mek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 call	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 mek	compound:prt
29	eh	eh	ADV	_	30 mine	advmod
30	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mek	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 de	nsubj
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 mek	conj
33	tief	tief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bin	amod
34	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 de	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	een eh		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eh=Recipient
2	consult	infinitive	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strip		es		a eh head appos	tree rules
5	do	participle		a eh head not said here		tree rules
6	cut off	participle				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	mek up	could	nobody	mine		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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 51