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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 117

De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin yeddy say you bin hab heap er sense, but now me know dat you got um.

Who acts: Man rale suprise, you · What happens: say, bin, know, get · To what, where: Rabbit, yeddy, hab heap · 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 (Man rale suprise, you), 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

compoundflatcompoundcompoundnsubjpunctdetappospunctpunctdiscourseobjpunctnsubjadvmodadvclobjparataxisnsubjccompcompoundobjamodconjpunctccadvmodnsubjparataxismarknsubjccompadvmodpunctrootDePROPNCunjurPROPNManPROPNraleNOUNsupriseNOUN,PUNCTanDETehNOUNsayVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTBuhINTJRabbitNOUN,PUNCTmePRONalwaysADVbinVERByeddyNOUNsayVERByouPRONbinVERBhabNOUNheapNOUNerADJsenseNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJnowADVmePRONknowVERBdatSCONJyouPRONgotVERBumADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DeDePROPNNumber=Sing3 Mancompound
2CunjurCunjurPROPNNumber=Sing1 Deflat
3ManManPROPNNumber=Sing5 suprisecompound
4raleraleNOUNNumber=Sing5 suprisecompound
5suprisesupriseNOUNNumber=Sing9 saynsubj
6,,PUNCT_8 ehpunct
7anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 ehdet
8ehehNOUNNumber=Sing5 supriseappos
9saysayVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
10::PUNCT_13 Rabbitpunct
11“"PUNCT_13 Rabbitpunct
12BuhbuhINTJ_13 Rabbitdiscourse
13RabbitrabbitNOUNNumber=Sing9 sayobj
14,,PUNCT_17 binpunct
15meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 binnsubj
16alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot17 binadvmod
17binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 sayadvcl
18yeddyyeddyNOUNNumber=Sing17 binobj
19saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 sayparataxis
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 binnsubj
21binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 sayccomp
22habhabNOUNNumber=Sing23 heapcompound
23heapheapNOUNNumber=Sing21 binobj
24ereADJDegree=Cmp25 senseamod
25sensesenseNOUNNumber=Sing23 heapconj
26,,PUNCT_30 knowpunct
27butbutCCONJ_30 knowcc
28nownowADVPronType=Dem30 knowadvmod
29meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 knownsubj
30knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 sayparataxis
31datdatSCONJ_33 gotmark
32youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs33 gotnsubj
33gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 knowccomp
34umumADV_33 gotadvmod
35..PUNCT_9 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertinfinitiveMan rale supriseRabbittree rules
2bin in a quotepresentMan rale suprise = supriseyeddyalways propertyvn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yeddy=Theme
3say speech: assert in a quotepresentvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4bin in a quotepresentyouhab heap and er sensevn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heap=Theme
5know in a quotepresentMan rale suprise = suprisenowvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6get in a quotepastyouvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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