Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

Eh tek eh trunk an try fuh lick um out, but befo de fire done out, eh bun de hinge er all two eh yez, so eh couldnt liff um up no mo.

Who acts: try · What happens: lick out, do out · To what, where: um, bun, Eh tek

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 (try), 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 tek	compound
2	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trunk	amod
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	obj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 try	det
6	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	appos
7	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	8 lick	discourse
8	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	acl
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lick	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 lick	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 done	cc
13	befo	befo	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fire	amod
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lick	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 done	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bun	punct
19	eh	eh	INTJ	_	20 bun	discourse
20	bun	bun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	22 hinge	compound
22	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bun	conj
23	er	er	ADP	_	27 yez	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 yez	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 yez	nsubj
26	eh	eh	PUNCT	_	25 two	punct
27	yez	yez	X	Foreign=Yes	22 hinge	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 liff	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 eh	advmod
30	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 liff	amod
31	couldnt	couldnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 liff	compound
32	liff	liff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tek	conj
33	um	um	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	32 liff	nmod:unmarked
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 liff	compound
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 mo	det
36	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 liff	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick out	infinitive	a try not said here	um					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent um=Source
2	do out	participle	a try not said here	bun and de hinge				befo de fire	vn act-114-1 «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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 31