Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

Wile eh duh tan onder one berry tree, one robin-red-bres, wuh bin er eat de berry, choke an fall der groun.

Who acts: you, one, robin red bres · What happens: wile, tan, bre, eat, choke · To what, where: one berry tree, berry, fall

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, one, robin red bres), 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	Wile	wile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eh	eh	INTJ	_	1 Wile	discourse
3	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 tan	discourse
4	tan	tan	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wile	conj
5	onder	onder	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tree	nummod
7	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tan	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bres	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bres	nsubj
11	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bres	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 robin	punct
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bres	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	bres	bre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 er	punct
17	wuh	wuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 er	amod
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 er	compound
19	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bres	conj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wile	parataxis
21	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 berry	nmod:poss
22	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 choke	punct
24	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 eat	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fall	det
26	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 choke	obj
27	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 groun	amod
28	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fall	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wile	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	tan	infinitive	you not said here	one berry tree		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	bre		one		wuh bin er conj	tree rules
4	eat	present	robin red bres and wuh bin er	de's berry		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
5	choke	infinitive	robin red bres and wuh bin er not said here	a fall and der groun		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Destination

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 6