Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 108

Wen dinner done ober, an de gentlemans duh set een de piazza duh talk, de boy come back wid er roccoon.

Who acts: Wen dinner, de boy · What happens: do, set, come back · To what, where: ober, een, wid er roccoon

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 (Wen dinner, de boy), 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 dinner	compound
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	nsubj
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dinner	acl
4	ober	ober	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 done	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gentlemans	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gentlemans	det
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 gentlemans	compound
8	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 set	nsubj
9	duh	duh	INTJ	_	10 set	discourse
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 set	obj
12	de	de	ADP	_	15 talk	case
13	piazza	piazza	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	compound
14	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 talk	amod
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 boy	compound
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 set	parataxis
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roccoon	amod
22	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roccoon	compound
23	roccoon	roccoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle	Wen dinner not said here	ober		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ober=Eventuality
2	set	past	Wen dinner	een	a de gentlemans nsubj	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient een=Result
3	come back	present	de boy	wid er roccoon	de piazza duh talk	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 8, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 108