Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 21

Den gen, eh kin tek de shape er man, en pass isself off fur great gentleman long de lady.

Who acts: tek de shape · What happens: pass off · To what, where: isself

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 (tek de shape), 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 gen	compound
2	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tek	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eh	punct
4	eh	eh	INTJ	_	2 gen	discourse
5	kin	kin	X	_	6 tek	compound
6	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shape	compound
7	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shape	amod
8	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	nsubj
9	er	er	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 man	nmod:poss
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pass	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 pass	compound:prt
16	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obj
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gentleman	amod
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 long	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lady	amod
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 lady	compound
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass off	infinitive	tek de shape	isself				er's man and en nsubj; fur obj; long de lady 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 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 21