Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 41

Eh pit de key ter de hole an eh onlock de do, an wen eh open um lo! an behole! eh see een de closet tree noung ooman duh heng up long dem neck, an dem bin all dead.

What happens: see, heng up · To what, where: een closet tree, long dem neck

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: 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pit	compound
2	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
3	de	de	ADP	_	5 ter	case
4	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ter	amod
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pit	nmod
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 hole	compound
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 onlock	det
9	eh	eh	X	_	10 onlock	compound
10	onlock	onlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	appos
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 onlock	flat:foreign
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 um	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 um	det
15	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eh	compound
16	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 um	compound
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 um	amod
18	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl
19	lo	lo	INTJ	_	18 um	appos
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 lo	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 behole	det
22	behole	behole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lo	obl:unmarked
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
24	eh	eh	INTJ	_	25 see	discourse
25	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	compound
27	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 een	flat:foreign
28	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	compound
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
30	noung	noung	ADP	_	31 ooman	case
31	ooman	ooman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	conj
32	duh	duh	INTJ	_	31 ooman	discourse
33	heng	heng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 duh	acl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 heng	compound:prt
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 neck	amod
36	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 neck	compound
37	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heng	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bin	punct
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bin	det
40	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bin	compound
41	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	conj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 dead	det
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bin	amod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support		een closet tree and ooman and a dem bin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	heng up	gerund		long dem neck					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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 41