Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 72

Eh fambly stonish fuh see um, an wen eh tell dem wuh mek eh come back, eh farruh an eh bredder git dem gun fur shoot de Debble ef eh come fuh tek de gal back.

Who acts: Eh, wen eh, mek eh, eh fur shoot · What happens: stonish, see, tell, come back, come · To what, where: fuh, um, dem, fuh de gal · 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 (Eh, wen eh, mek eh, eh fur shoot), 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stonish	nsubj
2	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	3 stonish	advmod
3	stonish	stonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stonish	obj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stonish	xcomp
6	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eh	det
9	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eh	compound
10	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stonish	parataxis
12	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
13	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	16 come	discourse
14	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 eh	compound
15	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eh	punct
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 come	discourse
20	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	28 shoot	discourse
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shoot	det
22	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shoot	amod
23	bredder	bredder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 git	compound
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dem	compound
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gun	compound
26	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fur	compound
27	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shoot	compound
28	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
29	de	de	ADP	_	32 eh	case
30	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 eh	compound
31	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eh	compound
32	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shoot	nmod
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	parataxis
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gal	amod
35	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 de	compound
36	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gal	compound
37	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 gal	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stonish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stonish	present	Eh	fuh	fambly property	tree rules
2	see	infinitive	Eh not said here	um		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	present	a wen eh	dem		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dem=Recipient
4	come back	present	mek eh			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present	a eh fur shoot de Debble ef eh	fuh de gal		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 72

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 72