Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

Wen de Debble fine out say eh wife yent come back from ride, eh biggin fuh spicion someting; an arter dinner eh git een eh carriage fuh hunt eh wife.

Who acts: Wen, eh wife yent, biggin, dinner git · What happens: fine out, come back, someting, hunt · To what, where: ride, wife

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, eh wife yent, biggin, dinner git), 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	4 fine	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
3	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wen	flat
4	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fine	compound:prt
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 yent	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yent	compound
9	yent	yent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 ride	case
13	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 someting	punct
15	eh	eh	INTJ	_	19 someting	discourse
16	biggin	biggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 someting	nsubj
17	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 someting	amod
18	spicion	spicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 someting	compound
19	someting	someting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 git	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dinner	det
22	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dinner	compound
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 git	compound
24	eh	eh	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 dinner	flat
25	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunt	nsubj
26	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 git	appos
27	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fuh	amod
28	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fuh	compound
29	fuh	fuh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 een	conj
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
31	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunt	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fine out	past	Wen			vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	come back	present	eh wife yent		ride	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ride=Initial_Location
3	someting		biggin			tree rules
4	hunt	present	dinner git	eh wife		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 73