Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 92

Den eh change back ter de shape er a man dist es befo, an eh git een him carriage, an eh dribe back ter him house same luk nuttne bin happne.

Who acts: Den · What happens: change back · To what, where: ter de shape

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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 change	nsubj
2	eh	eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 change	advmod
5	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shape	compound
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shape	amod
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
8	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 change	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 befo	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dist	compound
11	dist	dist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 es	compound
12	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 befo	compound
13	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carriage	compound
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 git	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 git	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 git	amod
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 befo	appos
18	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 git	list
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 een	nmod:unmarked
20	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dribe	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dribe	det
23	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dribe	amod
24	dribe	dribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carriage	appos
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 dribe	advmod
26	ter	ter	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dribe	nmod
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dribe	conj
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 happne	amod
30	luk	luk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nuttne	compound
31	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bin	compound
32	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 happne	compound
33	happne	happne	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 house	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change back	present	Den	ter de shape				befo carriage parataxis	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 92