Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 71

Dem tink two man fetch um,--one duh ride er white horse, an de edder duh ride er black horse.

Who acts: Dem, de edder · What happens: tink, fetch, ride · To what, where: two man, um, black horse

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 (Dem, de edder), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tink	nsubj
2	tink	tink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 man	nummod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tink	obj
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tink	xcomp
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ride	nummod
10	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ride	amod
11	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	compound
12	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 white	advmod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tink	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 edder	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 edder	det
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 edder	compound
18	edder	edder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	appos
19	duh	duh	INTJ	_	20 ride	discourse
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 edder	acl
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 black	advmod
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 horse	amod
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ride	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tink	infinitive	Dem	two man	ride white horse obl	tree rules
2	fetch	infinitive	Dem not said here	um		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme
3	ride	infinitive	a de edder not said here	black horse		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 71