Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 116

Eh no bin know say him bin er speak er true wud bout wuh bin een de barrel.

Who acts: bin · What happens: know, say, bin, speak · To what, where: bin, true wud bout · 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 (bin), 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	INTJ	_	4 know	discourse
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 bin	det
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	xcomp
8	er	er	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bin	xcomp
10	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 true	advmod
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bout	amod
12	wud	wud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bout	amod
13	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speak	obj
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	18 barrel	discourse
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 barrel	compound
16	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bin	flat
17	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 barrel	compound
18	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bout	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	no bin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		bin	tree rules
3	bin	infinitive			tree rules
4	speak speech: other	infinitive		true wud bout bin de barrel	tree rules

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 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 116