Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 135

Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float een de element, an wen eh walk bout eh hop so light you tink der sperit.

Who acts: ketch, wen eh, you · What happens: float, walk, tink · To what, where: een element, bout, light, Eh nose

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 (ketch, wen eh, 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nose	compound
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	duh	duh	INTJ	_	4 twis	discourse
4	twis	twi	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nose	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	compound
7	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	compound
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twis	nmod
9	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	15 float	discourse
10	ketch	ketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 float	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 scent	det
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scent	amod
13	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 float	nsubj
14	duh	duh	INTJ	_	15 float	discourse
15	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 twis	acl
16	een	een	X	Foreign=Yes	18 element	amod
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 een	flat
18	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 float	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walk	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eh	det
21	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eh	compound
22	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walk	nsubj
23	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 float	conj
24	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obj
25	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hop	amod
26	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obj
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 tink	mark
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tink	obl:unmarked
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 tink	nsubj
30	tink	tink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 walk	advcl
31	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 sperit	amod
32	sperit	sperit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tink	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	infinitive	ketch	een element	all de scent nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location element=Theme
2	walk	present	a wen eh	bout	eh hop obj	tree rules
3	tink	present	you	light	der sperit 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 135

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 135