Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 113

De ole man look at um, an walk roun um, an notus um close, an listne fuh see ef eh could yeddy anyting duh mobe.

Who acts: De ole man · What happens: look, see · To what, where: ef

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 ole man), 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	3 man	compound
2	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 um	case
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 um	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 um	det
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roun	compound
10	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 um	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 um	det
14	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 um	compound
15	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 um	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fuh	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fuh	det
19	listne	listne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fuh	compound
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 um	conj
21	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
22	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
23	eh	eh	ADV	_	26 anyting	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 anyting	aux
25	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anyting	compound
26	anyting	anything	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
27	duh	duh	INTJ	_	28 mobe	discourse
28	mobe	mobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anyting	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	De ole man					at um and a roun um and a notus um and a listne fuh	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at um=Theme
2	see	present	De ole man not said here	ef				yeddy anyting and mobe obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus

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 113

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 113