Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 74

Eh tek de big road, an eh mek eh driber pit de lick ter de horse, but eh cant see ner yeddy nuttne bout eh wife.

Who acts: eh mek, Eh tek, cant, ner · What happens: de, lick, see, bout · To what, where: ter · 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 mek, Eh tek, cant, ner), 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	2 tek	compound
2	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lick	nsubj
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 road	compound
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 road	amod
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 de	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mek	det
8	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mek	amod
9	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 de	nsubj
10	eh	eh	X	_	13 de	compound
11	driber	driber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pit	compound
12	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 de	compound
13	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	conj
14	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lick	obj
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 horse	compound
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ter	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
20	eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cant	det
21	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lick	advcl
23	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bout	nsubj
24	yeddy	yeddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bout	amod
25	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bout	compound
26	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
27	eh	eh	INTJ	_	28 wife	discourse
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bout	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	de		a eh mek			tree rules
2	lick	present	Eh tek and de big road and eh pit de	ter and de horse		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ter=Source
3	see	infinitive	eh cant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	bout		ner		wife conj	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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 74