Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

Den de soldier wuh bin on de right han side er de cart, dem run ter de house way dem yeddy de screamin an de hollerin, an dem bus een de do an gone een fuh kill de whole fambly.

Who acts: Den, ter · What happens: run, do · To what, where: gone een fuh kill

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 (Den, ter), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 run	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	soldier	soldier	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
4	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 run	discourse
5	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 run	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 er	case
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 er	nsubj
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 er	amod
9	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	compound
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	compound
11	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	nmod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 cart	compound
13	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dem	punct
15	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cart	conj
16	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	34 do	nsubj
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 ter	flat:foreign
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	compound
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yeddy	compound
21	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yeddy	compound
22	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ter	appos
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 yeddy	flat:foreign
24	screamin	screamin	ADP	_	27 hollerin	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hollerin	det
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 hollerin	compound
27	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yeddy	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bus	punct
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bus	det
30	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bus	compound
31	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hollerin	appos
32	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 bus	flat
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 hollerin	conj
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 run	ccomp
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 kill	det
36	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 kill	amod
37	een	een	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 kill	amod
38	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 kill	compound
39	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obj
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	41 whole	advmod
41	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 kill	amod
42	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	41 whole	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Den					bin on right side er and de cart and dem nsubj	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do	present	ter	a gone een fuh kill					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Eventuality

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 56

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 56