Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 67

Bout middle night you tek you horse an you paint one side er um white, an de tarruh side er um black.

Who acts: you · What happens: tek, paint · To what, where: you, one side

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), 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	Bout	Bout	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 night	compound
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tek	obl:unmarked
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tek	nsubj
5	tek	tek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tek	obj
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tek	obj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 paint	det
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 paint	nsubj
10	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tek	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 side	nummod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paint	obj
13	er	er	ADV	_	10 paint	advmod
14	um	um	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 er	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 side	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 side	det
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 side	dep
19	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	compound
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paint	obl
21	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	20 side	appos
22	um	um	X	_	21 er	goeswith
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 er	amod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tek	present	you	you			night	horse obj	tree rules
2	paint	infinitive	you	one side				a tarruh side obl	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 67