Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 121

Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come close eh nes, an dout gie um any warnin.

Who acts: sting, topper · What happens: drap, ebryt, come, gie · To what, where: topper, um

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 (sting, topper), 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	Eh	eh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sting	det
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drap	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sting	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lub	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lub	det
7	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lub	amod
8	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lub	compound
9	lub	lub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sting	conj
10	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	9 lub	discourse
11	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	topper	topper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drap	obj
13	ebryting	ebryt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 topper	acl
14	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	15 come	discourse
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ebryting	xcomp
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 come	xcomp
17	eh	eh	ADP	_	18 nes	case
18	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dout	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dout	det
21	dout	dout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 topper	conj
22	gie	gie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 drap	conj
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gie	obj
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 warnin	det
25	warnin	warnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gie	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 drap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drap	infinitive	eh sting and a eh berry lub	topper and a dout		tree rules
2	ebryt	gerund	topper and a dout not said here			tree rules
3	come	infinitive	topper and a dout not said here		eh nes; close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gie	infinitive	eh sting and a eh berry lub not said here	um	any warnin obj	tree 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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 121