Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

Den eh come same lucker owl, an eh holler down you chimbly an eh tarrify ebry body wen dem duh tun flour een de pot.

Who acts: Den eh, wen dem · What happens: come, flour · To what, where: same lucker owl

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 eh, wen dem), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 owl	amod
5	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owl	compound
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holler	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 holler	det
9	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 holler	amod
10	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owl	appos
11	down	down	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 holler	nmod
13	chimbly	chimbly	ADV	_	23 flour	advmod
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flour	det
15	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flour	amod
16	tarrify	tarrify	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ebry	compound
17	ebry	ebry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 body	compound
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wen	compound
19	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dem	compound
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flour	nsubj
21	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flour	amod
22	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flour	compound
23	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holler	nmod
24	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 flour	flat
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 flour	flat:foreign
26	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flour	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Den eh	same lucker owl					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location owl=Theme
2	flour		wen dem					pot conj; chimbly 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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 19