Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 35

Wen dem dribe up ter de step, de Debble, wuh bin de husbun, han eh Bride een de pahler, an set um een one rockin-chair, an tell um de whole house blanks ter um, an eh mus mek isself saterfy an joy isself.

Who acts: Wen dem, Debble · What happens: dribe up, blank, saterfy · To what, where: ter, joy

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 (Wen dem, Debble), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dem	compound
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dribe	nsubj
3	dribe	dribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 dribe	compound:prt
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dribe	obj
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 step	amod
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dribe	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Debble	punct
9	de	de	ADP	_	10 Debble	case
10	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 blanks	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bin	punct
12	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 bin	discourse
13	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Debble	flat
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 bin	flat:foreign
15	husbun	husbun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Debble	flat:foreign
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 han	punct
17	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Debble	appos
18	eh	eh	ADP	_	20 een	case
19	Bride	Bride	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 een	nmod:unmarked
20	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 han	nmod
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 pahler	compound
22	pahler	pahler	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 een	nmod:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 um	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 um	det
25	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 um	amod
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Debble	appos
27	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 um	flat
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 chair	nummod
29	rockin	rockin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chair	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 rockin	punct
31	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 een	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 um	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 um	det
34	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Debble	appos
36	de	de	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 house	amod
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	nmod
39	blanks	blank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dribe	parataxis
40	ter	ter	ADP	_	41 um	case
41	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 blanks	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 mus	punct
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 mus	det
44	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mus	amod
45	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 um	conj
46	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 mus	appos
47	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 mek	flat
48	saterfy	saterfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 blanks	conj
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 joy	det
50	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 saterfy	obj
51	isself	isself	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 joy	appos
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dribe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dribe up	infinitive	Wen dem	ter	de step obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	blank	present	Debble		ter um and a eh mus	tree rules
3	saterfy	infinitive	Debble not said here	a joy		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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 35