Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 77

Eh blow eh hot bref behine eh horse, an eh mek um run lucker de win.

Who acts: you, hot bref behine · What happens: blow, run, win · To what, where: lucker

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 (you, hot bref behine), 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	INTJ	_	2 blow	discourse
2	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eh	eh	ADV	_	2 blow	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 behine	amod
5	bref	bref	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behine	compound
6	behine	behine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	nsubj
7	eh	eh	ADV	_	8 horse	advmod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behine	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 um	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 um	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 um	amod
12	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behine	conj
14	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blow	parataxis
15	lucker	lucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 win	obl
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 lucker	flat:foreign
17	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 run	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	run	present	hot bref behine and horse and a eh mek um		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	win	present	hot bref behine and horse and a eh mek um not said here	lucker	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 77