Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 95

Me faid um wus den rattlesnake; an dat ting wuh dem call Hell, me nebber wan shum ner go nigh um.”

Who acts: nebber · What happens: go · To what, where: um, faid wus den rattlesnake

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 (nebber), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 rattlesnake	nsubj
2	faid	faid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rattlesnake	amod
3	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wus	compound
4	wus	wus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rattlesnake	compound
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rattlesnake	compound
6	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ting	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ting	det
9	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ting	amod
10	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rattlesnake	appos
11	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	13 call	discourse
12	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	compound
13	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ting	appos
14	Hell	Hell	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 call	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 me	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ting	conj
17	nebber	nebber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	nsubj
18	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ner	amod
19	shum	shum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ner	compound
20	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nebber	conj
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ting	parataxis
22	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	23 um	advmod
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ting	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rattlesnake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	nebber and wan shum ner	um					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 8, sentence 95