Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 53

All ob er sutten de horse open eh mout, an eh ax eh missis: “Enty you know who you marry ter?

Who acts: de, eh ax, you · What happens: mout, missis, know, marry · To what, where: ter · 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 (de, eh ax, you), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ob	det
2	ob	ob	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sutten	nsubj
3	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sutten	advmod
4	sutten	sutten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 mout	nsubj
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mout	nsubj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mout	amod
8	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mout	compound
9	mout	mout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sutten	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 missis	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ax	det
12	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ax	amod
13	ax	ax	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 missis	nsubj
14	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 missis	amod
15	missis	missis	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mout	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Enty	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Enty	punct
18	Enty	enty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sutten	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Enty	acl:relcl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 marry	nsubj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 marry	nsubj
23	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	ccomp
24	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sutten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mout		de		horse nsubj	tree rules
2	missis		a eh ax			tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	marry in a quote	present		ter	who nsubj; you nsubj	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient

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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 53