Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 106

De money pit up, an de fren call one boy, wuh bin er wuk bout de lot, an dem sen um der wood fuh ketch one coon.

Who acts: De money, de fren · What happens: pit up, call · To what, where: one boy · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De money, de fren), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	2 money	compound
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pit	nsubj
3	pit	pit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pit	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fren	det
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fren	amod
8	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pit	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 boy	nummod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 er	punct
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	15 er	discourse
14	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	compound
15	er	er	X	_	9 call	parataxis
16	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bout	compound
17	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	flat
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 er	flat
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 um	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 um	det
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sen	compound
23	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 um	compound
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	conj
25	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 wood	amod
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	flat
27	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 er	discourse
28	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	flat
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 coon	nummod
30	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	flat
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pit up	infinitive	De money						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call speech: assert	infinitive	a de fren		one boy				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient

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 8, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 106