Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 140

Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an collec de fish an pit um een eh waggin an cahr um home fuh him an eh fambly fuh eat.

Who acts: eh · What happens: waggin, eat · To what, where: eh trap, Ebry low tide

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	Ebry	Ebry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tide	compound
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tide	amod
3	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	de	de	ADP	_	7 tek	case
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tek	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tek	compound
7	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tide	nmod
8	eh	eh	X	ExtPos=PROPN	7 tek	appos
9	leely	leely	X	_	8 eh	goeswith
10	waggin	waggin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 eh	acl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trap	det
12	wisit	wisit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eh	compound
13	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trap	compound
14	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waggin	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fish	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fish	det
17	collec	collec	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	compound
18	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	compound
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tide	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 um	det
21	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 um	compound
22	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	nsubj
23	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 um	flat
24	eh	eh	X	_	19 fish	appos
25	waggin	waggin	X	_	24 eh	goeswith
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 um	det
27	cahr	cahr	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	flat
29	home	home	ADV	_	24 eh	advmod
30	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	24 eh	discourse
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eh	goeswith
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 eh	det
33	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eh	flat
34	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	36 eat	advmod
35	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	36 eat	discourse
36	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 eh	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waggin	gerund		a eh trap					tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	a eh not said here					fambly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 140

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 140