Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 89

Wen eh git ter eh house eh sen one er him gal to Buh Wolf house fuh tell um him hab some nice fish, an ter eenwite Buh Wolf an him fambly fuh tek brukwus long um nex mornin.

Who acts: Wen, tek brukwus · What happens: eh, tell, hab, mornin · To what, where: git, um, nice fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tek brukwus), 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	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
4	ter	ter	ADP	_	8 sen	case
5	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	compound
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sen	compound
7	eh	eh	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 house	flat
8	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 gal	nummod
10	er	er	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obl:unmarked
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 house	case
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wolf	compound
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 house	compound
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obl
17	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	18 tell	discourse
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eh	conj
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hab	nsubj
21	hab	hab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 fish	det
23	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fish	amod
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hab	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eenwite	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eenwite	det
27	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eenwite	amod
28	eenwite	eenwite	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fish	appos
29	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 eenwite	appos
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Buh	flat
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 him	det
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eenwite	conj
33	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	40 mornin	advmod
34	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	40 mornin	discourse
35	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brukwus	compound
36	brukwus	brukwu	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 mornin	nsubj
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 nex	amod
38	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 nex	compound
39	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 mornin	compound
40	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eenwite	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eh	past	Wen	git	ter house sen; to Wolf house; one gal obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Wen not said here	um		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hab	present	wen	some nice fish		tree rules
4	mornin		tek brukwus		fambly property	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 89

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 89