Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 52

Him no know de horse wuh him duh ride bin a yeddy um, an duh notus wuh him duh say.

Who acts: wen · What happens: ride, say · To what, where: bin · 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 (wen), 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	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ride	reparandum
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 know	det
3	know	know	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Him	conj
4	de	de	ADP	_	5 horse	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	nmod
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 ride	discourse
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ride	nsubj
8	duh	duh	INTJ	_	9 ride	discourse
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 um	det
12	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 notus	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 notus	det
16	duh	duh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 notus	amod
17	notus	notus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	conj
18	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	21 say	discourse
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
20	duh	duh	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ride	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	infinitive	wen	bin				a yeddy um and a duh notus obj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	wen					duh property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/8/52/

🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 52