Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

De nex mornin wen de Debble, wuh bin him husbun, leff de house an gone fuh mine eh bidness, eh wife fine de nail dis es de horse bin say, an eh pit um een eh pocket.

Who acts: fine dis es · What happens: bin, say · To what, where: de, pocket, nex mornin wen · 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 (fine dis es), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wen	nsubj
2	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	compound
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	compound
4	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	de	de	ADP	_	6 Debble	case
6	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wen	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bin	punct
8	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 bin	discourse
9	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 wen	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bin	obj
11	husbun	husbun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 house	punct
13	leff	leff	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 house	compound
14	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 leff	flat
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wen	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fuh	det
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fuh	amod
18	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fuh	nsubj
20	eh	eh	INTJ	_	21 bidness	discourse
21	bidness	bidness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fuh	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eh	punct
23	eh	eh	INTJ	_	25 fine	discourse
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fine	nsubj
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 es	amod
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 nail	compound
27	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dis	compound
28	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 es	compound
29	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 say	nsubj
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 bin	compound
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bin	compound
32	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 es	nmod
33	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wen	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 um	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 um	det
36	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 um	amod
37	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 um	compound
38	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 say	ccomp
39	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 um	flat
40	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pocket	det
41	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 say	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	infinitive		de				husbun obj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	fine dis es de horse bin	eh pocket				a eh pit um ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pocket=Topic

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 65

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 65