Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 20

Den wen you sick, eh gone eensider you lucker a wurrum, an eh gie you all sorter misry.

Who acts: you, eh · What happens: go, lucker, gie · To what, where: wurrum, you

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 (you, 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wen	compound
2	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sick	nsubj
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eensider	punct
6	eh	eh	INTJ	_	8 eensider	discourse
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 eensider	amod
8	eensider	eensider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 lucker	nsubj
10	lucker	lucker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eensider	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wurrum	det
12	wurrum	wurrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lucker	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gie	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gie	nsubj
16	gie	gie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sick	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 gie	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 misry	det
19	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 misry	compound
20	misry	misry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gie	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	participle				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lucker	present	you	a wurrum		tree rules
3	gie	infinitive	a eh	you	all sorter misry obj	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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 20