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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 9, sentence 38

Dem pit um een bag, an es dem gin gwine home, de agg so fresh an sweet, Buh Rabbit slip eh han een eh bag an onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf eh suck all de agg wuh bin fall ter him share befo dem retch de fork er de road way dem gwine part compny.

Who acts: es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg, um · What happens: gwine, slip, suck, fall, share · To what, where: han eh bag

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 (es, Dem pit um, onbeknowinst ter, de agg), 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

amodcompoundnsubjflatconjpunctdetnsubjcompoundcompoundconjadvmodpunctcompoundconjadvmodamoddetobl:unmarkedpunctnsubjflatcompoundcompoundflatcompoundobjdetamodnsubjnsubjflatdiscourseparataxisdetcompoundnsubjamodnsubjparataxismarknsubjadvclcasecompoundoblcompoundconjconjflat:foreigncompoundcompoundapposamodcompoundconjpunctrootDemADJpitNOUNumNOUNeenNUMbagNOUN,PUNCTanDETesNOUNdemNOUNginNOUNgwineNOUNhomeADV,PUNCTdeXaggNOUNsoADVfreshADJanDETsweetADJ,PUNCTBuhPROPNRabbitPROPNslipVERBehNOUNhanNOUNeenNUMehNOUNbagNOUNanDETonbeknowinstADJterNOUNBuhPROPNWolfPROPNehINTJsuckVERBallDETdeXaggNOUNwuhADJbinNOUNfallVERBterSCONJhimPRONshareVERBbefoADPdemNOUNretchNOUNdeXforkNOUNerXdeXroadNOUNwayNOUNdemNOUNgwineADJpartNOUNcompnyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DemdemADJDegree=Pos3 umamod
2pitpitNOUNNumber=Sing3 umcompound
3umumNOUNNumber=Sing23 slipnsubj
4eeneenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 umflat
5bagbagNOUNNumber=Sing3 umconj
6,,PUNCT_11 gwinepunct
7anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 gwinedet
8eseNOUNNumber=Plur11 gwinensubj
9demdemNOUNNumber=Sing10 gincompound
10ginginNOUNNumber=Sing11 gwinecompound
11gwinegwineNOUNNumber=Sing3 umconj
12homehomeADV_11 gwineadvmod
13,,PUNCT_15 aggpunct
14dedeXForeign=Yes15 aggcompound
15aggaggNOUNNumber=Sing11 gwineconj
16sosoADV_17 freshadvmod
17freshfreshADJDegree=Pos15 aggamod
18anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 sweetdet
19sweetsweetADJDegree=Pos17 freshobl:unmarked
20,,PUNCT_21 Buhpunct
21BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing23 slipnsubj
22RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing21 Buhflat
23slipslipVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
24ehehNOUNNumber=Sing25 hancompound
25hanhanNOUNNumber=Sing28 bagcompound
26eeneenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 hanflat
27ehehNOUNNumber=Sing28 bagcompound
28bagbagNOUNNumber=Sing23 slipobj
29anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 terdet
30onbeknowinstonbeknowinADJDegree=Sup31 teramod
31terterNOUNNumber=Sing35 sucknsubj
32BuhBuhPROPNNumber=Sing35 sucknsubj
33WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing32 Buhflat
34ehehINTJ_35 suckdiscourse
35sucksuckVERBVerbForm=Inf23 slipparataxis
36allallDETPronType=Tot38 aggdet
37dedeXForeign=Yes38 aggcompound
38aggaggNOUNNumber=Sing41 fallnsubj
39wuhwuhADJDegree=Pos40 binamod
40binbinNOUNNumber=Sing41 fallnsubj
41fallfallVERBVerbForm=Inf35 suckparataxis
42terterSCONJ_44 sharemark
43himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 sharensubj
44shareshareVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin41 falladvcl
45befobefoADP_47 retchcase
46demdemNOUNNumber=Sing47 retchcompound
47retchretchNOUNNumber=Sing44 shareobl
48dedeXForeign=Yes49 forkcompound
49forkforkNOUNNumber=Sing47 retchconj
50ererXForeign=Yes47 retchconj
51dedeXForeign=Yes50 erflat:foreign
52roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing53 waycompound
53waywayNOUNNumber=Sing54 demcompound
54demdemNOUNNumber=Sing50 erappos
55gwinegwineADJDegree=Pos57 compnyamod
56partpartNOUNNumber=Sing57 compnycompound
57compnycompnyNOUNNumber=Sing54 demconj
58..PUNCT_23 slippunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gwineesde agg conj; home propertytree rules
2slippresentDem pit um and bag and a gin gwine and de agghan eh bagBuh nsubjvn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
3suckinfinitivea onbeknowinst terBuh nsubjvn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4fallinfinitiveall de aggwuh bin nsubjvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5sharepresentumbefo dem retch and de forktree 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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