Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 62

Wen eh fine eh wife mine done mek up, an no way fuh him fuh git out cept fuh fetch Buh Coon body ter eh wife, eh gone ter Buh Rabbit fuh vise um an fuh help um.

Who acts: Wen, fine eh wife mine · What happens: eh out, do up · To what, where: fine eh wife mine, mek

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 (Wen, fine eh wife mine), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mine	amod
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mine	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mine	compound
6	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mine	acl
8	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 done	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 done	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obl
14	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	13 way	discourse
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	17 git	discourse
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	2 eh	compound:prt
19	cept	cept	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	compound
20	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fetch	amod
21	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Buh	nmod:desc
22	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 body	compound
23	Coon	Coon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Buh	flat
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	parataxis
25	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	24 body	conj
26	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ter	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
29	eh	eh	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	conj
31	ter	ter	ADP	_	35 vise	case
32	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Rabbit	compound
33	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 vise	compound
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 vise	amod
35	vise	vise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	obl
36	um	um	ADP	_	40 um	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 um	det
38	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 um	amod
39	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 um	compound
40	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 vise	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eh out	past	Wen	fine eh wife mine				a way mek obl; git parataxis; Buh body parataxis	tree rules
2	do up	participle	fine eh wife mine not said here	mek					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mek=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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 62