Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 69

Wen night come on dem drap anurrur nail, middle night anurrer, an es de sun duh rise dem drap de las one.

Who acts: Wen night, es, dem, de · What happens: come, drap, rise, la · To what, where: anurrur nail, dem, one

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 (Wen night, es, dem, de), 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	Wen	Wen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 night	compound
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 dem	case
5	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drap	obl
6	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
7	anurrur	anurrur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nail	compound
8	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drap	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 anurrer	punct
10	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 anurrer	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 anurrer	compound
12	anurrer	anurrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nail	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rise	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 es	det
15	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rise	nsubj
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 sun	compound
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rise	nsubj
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	19 rise	discourse
19	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
20	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drap	nsubj
21	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rise	ccomp
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 las	nsubj
23	las	la	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 drap	ccomp
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 las	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Wen night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drap	present	Wen night not said here	anurrur nail and middle night anurrer	dem		tree rules
3	rise	infinitive	a es			de sun nsubj	tree rules
4	drap	present	dem				tree rules
5	la	present	de	one			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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 69