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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 111

Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de snake say him yent bin es long as de stick wuh him hab een him han.

Who acts: Eh, de time, de snake · What happens: pass, um, say, een · To what, where: eh, um · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, de time, de snake), 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

nsubjcompoundnsubjamodcompoundcompoundcompoundamodobjpunctdetadvmodcompoundapposcompoundnsubjacl:relclobjamodcompoundobl:unmarkedccompcaseamodobldiscoursensubjadvmodacl:relclobjobjpunctrootEhPROPNpassVERBdeXtimeNOUNerADJdayNOUNberryNOUNperliteNOUNwidADJumNOUN,PUNCTanDETarterwardsADVehNOUNbetNOUNdeXsnakeNOUNsayVERBhimPRONyentADJbinNOUNesNOUNlongADJasADPdeADJstickNOUNwuhINTJhimPRONhabADVeenVERBhimPRONhanNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EhEhPROPNNumber=Sing2 passnsubj
2passpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3dedeXForeign=Yes4 timecompound
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing10 umnsubj
5ererADJDegree=Pos10 umamod
6daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 berrycompound
7berryberryNOUNNumber=Sing8 perlitecompound
8perliteperliteNOUNNumber=Sing10 umcompound
9widwidADJDegree=Pos10 umamod
10umumNOUNNumber=Sing2 passobj
11,,PUNCT_15 betpunct
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 betdet
13arterwardsarterwardsADV_15 betadvmod
14ehehNOUNNumber=Sing15 betcompound
15betbetNOUNNumber=Sing10 umappos
16dedeXForeign=Yes17 snakecompound
17snakesnakeNOUNNumber=Sing18 saynsubj
18saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf15 betacl:relcl
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 sayobj
20yentyentADJDegree=Pos22 esamod
21binbinNOUNNumber=Sing22 escompound
22eseNOUNNumber=Plur23 longobl:unmarked
23longlongADJDegree=Pos18 sayccomp
24asasADP_26 stickcase
25dedeADJDegree=Pos26 stickamod
26stickstickNOUNNumber=Sing23 longobl
27wuhwuhINTJ_28 himdiscourse
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 eennsubj
29habhabADV_30 eenadvmod
30eeneenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 stickacl:relcl
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 eenobj
32hanhanNOUNNumber=Sing30 eenobj
33..PUNCT_2 passpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1passpresentEhvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2umde timea eh bet appostree rules
3say speech: assertinfinitivede snakeehvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4eenpastehumhan obj; hab propertytree rules

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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