Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 123

Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh cut one hole een um, an eh pit honey een um, an eh tie um on de een er one long pole.

Who acts: Eh · What happens: go out, cut · To what, where: eh git, one hole

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), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gone	nsubj
2	gone	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 git	det
4	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 git	amod
5	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 calabash	nummod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 calabash	amod
8	calabash	calabash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 um	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 um	det
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 um	amod
12	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 um	compound
13	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calabash	appos
14	out	out	ADP	_	2 gone	compound:prt
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gone	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eh	det
18	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gone	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hole	nummod
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
22	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hole	flat
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 um	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 um	det
26	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 um	amod
27	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 honey	compound
28	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	compound
29	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 honey	flat
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 um	punct
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 um	det
33	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 um	amod
34	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	appos
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 een	case
37	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 een	advmod
38	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 um	nmod
39	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 pole	advmod
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 pole	nummod
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pole	amod
42	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 een	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Eh	a eh git				one big calabash obl; clean property	tree rules
2	cut	past	a eh	one hole and a eh honey um					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product

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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 123