Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 117

Eh bin er talk bout ehself wen eh say dem bin head de ole coon dis time, but eh Mossa an de tarruh gentlemans no know, and dem all gie de ole man big praise.

Who acts: Eh er talk, eh · What happens: say, gie · To what, where: dem bin 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 (Eh er talk, eh), 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	4 talk	compound
2	bin	Bin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	flat
3	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	amod
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
5	bout	bout	ADP	_	7 wen	case
6	ehself	ehself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wen	nsubj
7	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nmod
8	eh	eh	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	compound
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 head	compound
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
13	de	de	ADP	_	17 time	case
14	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
15	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dis	compound
16	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	compound
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gie	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 gie	cc
20	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gie	nsubj
21	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 eh	flat
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gentlemans	det
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 gentlemans	compound
24	tarruh	tarruh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gentlemans	compound
25	gentlemans	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gie	nsubj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 know	det
27	know	know	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gentlemans	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dem	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dem	cc
30	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gentlemans	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 gie	advmod
32	gie	gie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	conj
33	de	de	ADP	_	37 praise	case
34	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 praise	nsubj
36	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 praise	amod
37	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gie	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Eh er talk bout wen ehself	dem bin head			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	gie	present	eh					de big praise ole man; a de tarruh gentlemans and no know and dem nsubj; all property	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 117

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 117