Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 18

Den eh look lucker white deer, an eh fly tru de wood, dout mek no noise, fuh skade people duh walk long de big road.

Who acts: Den, skade people · What happens: look, walk · To what, where: lucker, de big road

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 (Den, skade people), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 look	nsubj
2	eh	eh	PART	_	3 look	mark
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deer	amod
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lucker	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fly	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fly	amod
10	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lucker	appos
11	tru	tru	X	Foreign=Yes	13 wood	amod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 tru	flat
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mek	punct
15	dout	dout	ADP	_	16 mek	case
16	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 noise	det
18	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mek	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
20	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	22 people	discourse
21	skade	skade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 people	compound
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 walk	nsubj
23	duh	duh	INTJ	_	24 walk	discourse
24	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	parataxis
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 road	advmod
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 road	compound
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 road	amod
28	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walk	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	Den	lucker				dout mek	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lucker=Attribute
2	walk	infinitive	skade people	de big road					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 18