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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

Mo na dat, eh tell um, de nex mornin wen eh come fuh ride, eh mus fetch een eh pocket four big nail wuh day on de mantlepiece een de Debble room, an dem will help um fuh git way.

Who acts: Mo, de, mus, dem · What happens: tell, come, fetch, help, um · To what, where: um, fuh ride, een eh pocket, de mantlepiece, fuh git way · 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 (Mo, de, mus, dem), 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

nsubjcompoundappospunctdiscourseobjpunctnsubjamodcompoundcompoundnsubjadvclamodobjpunctdiscoursensubjparataxisnummodcompoundobjflatamodconjdiscourseobl:unmarkedcaseamodoblflatcasecompoundnmodpunctdetnsubjauxconjxcompamodcompoundobjpunctrootMoPROPNnaXdatNOUN,PUNCTehINTJtellVERBumNOUN,PUNCTdeXnexADJmorninNOUNwenNOUNehNOUNcomeVERBfuhADJrideNOUN,PUNCTehINTJmusNOUNfetchVERBeenNUMehNOUNpocketNOUNfourNUMbigADJnailNOUNwuhINTJdayNOUNonADPdeADJmantlepieceNOUNeenNUMdeADPDebblePROPNroomNOUN,PUNCTanDETdemNOUNwillAUXhelpVERBumVERBfuhADJgitNOUNwayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MoMoPROPNNumber=Sing6 tellnsubj
2nanaX_3 datcompound
3datdatNOUNNumber=Sing1 Moappos
4,,PUNCT_1 Mopunct
5ehehINTJ_6 telldiscourse
6telltellVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
7umumNOUNNumber=Sing6 tellobj
8,,PUNCT_14 comepunct
9dedeXForeign=Yes14 comensubj
10nexnexADJDegree=Pos13 ehamod
11morninmorninNOUNNumber=Sing12 wencompound
12wenwenNOUNNumber=Sing13 ehcompound
13ehehNOUNNumber=Plur14 comensubj
14comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 telladvcl
15fuhfuhADJDegree=Pos16 rideamod
16riderideNOUNNumber=Sing14 comeobj
17,,PUNCT_20 fetchpunct
18ehehINTJ_20 fetchdiscourse
19musmuNOUNNumber=Plur20 fetchnsubj
20fetchfetchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 tellparataxis
21eeneenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 pocketnummod
22ehehNOUNNumber=Sing23 pocketcompound
23pocketpocketNOUNNumber=Sing20 fetchobj
24fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 pocketflat
25bigbigADJDegree=Pos26 nailamod
26nailnailNOUNNumber=Sing23 pocketconj
27wuhwuhINTJ_28 daydiscourse
28daydayNOUNNumber=Sing20 fetchobl:unmarked
29ononADP_31 mantlepiececase
30dedeADJDegree=Pos31 mantlepieceamod
31mantlepiecemantlepieceNOUNNumber=Sing20 fetchobl
32eeneenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 mantlepieceflat
33dedeADP_35 roomcase
34DebbleDebblePROPNNumber=Sing35 roomcompound
35roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing31 mantlepiecenmod
36,,PUNCT_40 helppunct
37anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 demdet
38demdemNOUNNumber=Sing40 helpnsubj
39willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin40 helpaux
40helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf20 fetchconj
41umumVERBVerbForm=Inf40 helpxcomp
42fuhfuhADJDegree=Pos44 wayamod
43gitgitNOUNNumber=Sing44 waycompound
44waywayNOUNNumber=Sing41 umobj
45..PUNCT_6 tellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertinfinitiveMoumvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent um=Recipient
2comepresentdefuh ridenex wen eh nsubjvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ride=Theme
3fetchpresentmuseen eh pocket and big nailde mantlepiece de Debble roomdayvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme on mantlepiece=Source
4helpfuturea demvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5uminfinitivea dem not said herefuh git waytree 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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