Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 115

Wen de ole man mek up eh mine eh couldnt fine out wuh day een de barrel, eh stop, eh study, eh cratch eh head, an den eh mek answer: “Mossa, hoona done head de ole coon dis time.”

Who acts: Wen ole man, Mossa · What happens: mek up, stop, do · To what, where: mine, eh study, head · 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 (Wen ole man, Mossa), 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	4 man	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Wen	flat:foreign
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mek	nsubj
5	mek	mek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 mek	compound:prt
7	eh	eh	ADV	_	8 mine	advmod
8	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mek	obl
9	eh	eh	PUNCT	_	8 mine	punct
10	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mek	obl
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 barrel	amod
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 fine	compound:prt
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	17 barrel	discourse
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 barrel	compound
15	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	flat
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 barrel	amod
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mek	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stop	punct
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	20 stop	discourse
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mek	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 study	punct
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 study	amod
23	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stop	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
25	eh	eh	INTJ	_	28 head	discourse
26	cratch	cratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eh	compound
27	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	compound
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 study	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eh	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 eh	det
31	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eh	compound
32	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 study	conj
33	mek	mek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 answer	amod
34	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eh	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
37	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 done	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hoona	punct
39	hoona	hoona	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Mossa	appos
40	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mek	parataxis
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 done	obj
42	de	de	ADP	_	46 time	case
43	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 time	amod
44	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dis	compound
45	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 time	compound
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 done	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mek up	infinitive	Wen ole man	mine		couldnt obl; fine day de barrel obj	tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	Wen ole man not said here	eh study and eh head and a den eh and mek answer			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality study=Eventuality
3	do in a quote	participle	Mossa	head	time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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 115

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 115