Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 87

De Debble wunt yeddy dem, an es eh rise de step de farruh an de bredder er de noung ooman shoot de Debble long buck-shot.

Who acts: es eh · What happens: rise · To what, where: de step, wunt yeddy dem

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 (es eh), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dem	nsubj
2	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 De	flat
3	wunt	wunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dem	compound
4	yeddy	yeddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dem	compound
5	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rise	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eh	det
8	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eh	compound
9	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rise	nsubj
10	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dem	parataxis
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 step	compound
12	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rise	obl
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 step	flat:foreign
14	farruh	farruh	INTJ	_	18 er	discourse
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bredder	det
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 bredder	compound
17	bredder	bredder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	nsubj
18	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	10 rise	parataxis
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 er	flat:foreign
20	noung	noung	ADP	_	22 shoot	case
21	ooman	ooman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shoot	amod
22	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 er	nmod
23	de	de	ADP	_	28 shot	case
24	Debble	Debble	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shot	nsubj
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shot	amod
26	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shot	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 buck	punct
28	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shoot	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	a es eh	de step					vn assuming_position-50 «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 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 87