Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

Bimeby eh come pon topper de fus bank er san een de road, an den him bin know right off wuh happne.

Who acts: Bimeby eh, san een · What happens: come, know · To what, where: pon topper

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 (Bimeby eh, san een), 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	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eh	compound
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 topper	compound
5	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 topper	flat:foreign
7	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bank	amod
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
9	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 san	advmod
10	san	san	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 een	amod
11	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
12	de	de	ADP	_	13 road	case
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 een	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 den	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 den	det
16	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 een	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 den	nmod
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
20	right	right	ADV	_	23 happne	advmod
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 happne	case
22	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	23 happne	discourse
23	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Bimeby eh	pon topper				fus bank obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	san een de road and a den road					bin nsubj; happne ccomp	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 75