Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 128

Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin see you hab de bes sense een you head.”

Who acts: me, Mo na dat, hab bes, you · What happens: spot, see, sense, head · To what, where: you

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 (me, Mo na dat, hab bes, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dat	compound
2	na	na	X	_	3 dat	compound
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spot	punct
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 spot	nsubj
6	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spot	amod
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spot	compound
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spot	amod
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dat	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 spot	nmod
12	forrud	forrud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spot	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kin	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 kin	advmod
15	ebrybody	ebrybody	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kin	compound
16	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dat	conj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bes	compound
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 hab	flat:foreign
21	bes	be	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sense	nsubj
22	sense	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	parataxis
23	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 head	nummod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 head	nsubj
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sense	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spot		me		on you; forrud conj	tree rules
2	see	present	Mo na dat and ebrybody kin	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	sense	present	hab bes			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	head		you			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 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 128