Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 62

De horse sorry fur um, an eh prommus fuh try an sabe um, but eh tell um fuh keep eh mout shet, an mek no rackit bout de ting.

Who acts: De horse, eh, um fuh · What happens: try, sabe, tell, keep, eh · To what, where: sabe um, mek, mout shet · 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 horse, eh, um fuh), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	2 horse	compound
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 um	amod
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	compound
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prommus	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prommus	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prommus	amod
9	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	appos
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 prommus	discourse
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 um	det
13	sabe	sabe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 um	compound
14	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
17	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tell	nsubj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 try	advcl
19	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fuh	compound
20	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	nsubj
21	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
22	eh	eh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 keep	xcomp
23	mout	mout	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shet	compound
24	shet	shet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mek	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mek	det
27	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 bout	det
29	rackit	rackit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bout	compound
30	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
31	de	de	ADP	_	32 ting	case
32	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	infinitive	De horse	a sabe um		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Eventuality
2	sabe	infinitive				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	eh	a mek	de ting; no rackit bout obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bout=Recipient clause=Topic
4	keep	present	um fuh			tree rules
5	eh	gerund	um fuh not said here	mout shet		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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 62