Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 66

Den eh call fuh him ridin horse same luk eh ebber done, an eh gone down de road fuh ride.

What happens: do, go down · To what, where: eh, horse same luk

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: 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
3	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ridin	compound
4	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	5 him	discourse
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 call	nmod
6	ridin	ridin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 horse	compound
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 luk	compound
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 luk	amod
9	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	eh	eh	ADV	_	11 ebber	advmod
11	ebber	ebb	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 luk	conj
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ebber	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eh	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eh	det
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 luk	appos
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 eh	acl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 gone	compound:prt
18	de	de	ADP	_	21 ride	case
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ride	compound
20	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ride	amod
21	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 luk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go down	participle		a eh not said here				de road fuh ride	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 66