Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 36

Dem Cooter blan come outer de water wen de tide high, an dig hole een de san, an lay dem agg, an kibber dem ober so crow an ting cant fine um.

Who acts: Dem Cooter blan · What happens: come, crow · To what, where: outer de water wen, cant fine um

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 (Dem Cooter blan), 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	Dem	Dem	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 blan	compound
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blan	compound
3	blan	blan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wen	amod
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 wen	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wen	compound
8	wen	wen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 tide	compound
10	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wen	conj
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tide	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hole	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hole	det
14	dig	dig	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hole	amod
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wen	conj
16	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hole	flat
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 hole	conj
18	san	san	X	Foreign=Yes	17 de	flat:foreign
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 agg	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 agg	det
21	lay	lay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 agg	amod
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 agg	compound
23	agg	agg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hole	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ober	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ober	det
26	kibber	kibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dem	compound
27	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ober	compound
28	ober	ober	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wen	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 crow	advmod
30	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 um	det
32	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cant	compound
33	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 um	compound
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 um	amod
35	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crow	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Dem Cooter blan	outer de water wen and de tide and a dig hole and a lay dem agg and a dem ober					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wen=Theme
2	crow	infinitive	Dem Cooter blan not said here	a cant fine um					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Topic

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 36

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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 36