Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 40

Bimeby eh gone duh garret, an eh see one do up day wuh bin lock.

Who acts: Bimeby, one · What happens: eh, see, do up · To what, where: gone duh garret · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bimeby, one), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	nsubj
2	eh	eh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garret	amod
4	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garret	amod
5	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eh	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eh	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eh	det
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 garret	appos
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eh	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 do	compound:prt
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl:unmarked
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 lock	discourse
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lock	compound
16	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eh	past	Bimeby	gone duh garret		tree rules
2	see	infinitive	Bimeby not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do up	present	one		day	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 40