Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 9

Eh sen fuh de cunjur man, an eh tell um eh time mose out, an dat ef eh no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine kill um.

Who acts: de cunjur man, dat ef, fine de Ring · What happens: mose out, eh, kill · To what, where: de cunjur man, um

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 (de cunjur man, dat ef, fine de Ring), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
2	sen	sen	X	Foreign=Yes	6 man	nsubj
3	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	6 man	discourse
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 man	compound
5	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
10	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eh	compound
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	compound
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mose	obl:unmarked
14	mose	mose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 mose	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eh	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ef	det
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ef	compound
19	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eh	nsubj
20	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 Ring	det
22	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Ring	amod
23	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Ring	compound
24	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	nsubj
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 gwine	case
26	sundown	sundown	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gwine	compound
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gwine	compound
28	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Ring	nmod
29	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eh	ccomp
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mose out	infinitive	de cunjur man Eh not said here		time	tree rules
2	eh	past	a dat ef	de cunjur man Eh not said here		tree rules
3	kill	present	no fine de Ring by sundown eh gwine	um		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 9