Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 8

Den eh tek um, an wrop um up een eh henkerchef, an pit um een eh hat.

Who acts: Den · What happens: um up · To what, where: een henkerchef

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), 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	8 um	nsubj
2	eh	eh	X	_	4 um	compound
3	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 um	compound
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrop	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wrop	det
7	wrop	wrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	appos
8	um	um	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 um	compound:prt
10	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 henkerchef	nummod
11	eh	eh	INTJ	_	12 henkerchef	discourse
12	henkerchef	henkerchef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 um	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 um	det
15	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 um	compound
16	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 henkerchef	appos
17	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 um	flat
18	eh	eh	INTJ	_	19 hat	discourse
19	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 um	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	um up	infinitive	Den	een henkerchef				hat obl	tree rules

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 8