Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 112

Eh come; an den eh Mossa say: “Ole man, we sen fuh you fuh tell we wuh day een dis barrel.”

Who acts: Eh, den eh, we, fuh · What happens: come, say, sen, tell · To what, where: Ole man, you, day dis barrel, we · 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 (Eh, den eh, we, fuh), 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	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eh	det
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eh	compound
6	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
7	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eh	appos
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sen	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sen	nsubj
15	sen	sen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	parataxis
16	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 sen	discourse
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 sen	obj
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tell	nsubj
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sen	parataxis
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	25 barrel	discourse
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 barrel	compound
23	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	flat
24	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 barrel	compound
25	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	present	Eh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a den eh	Ole man		tree rules
3	sen in a quote	present	we	you		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	fuh	day dis barrel	we	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=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 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 112