--- title: Soon de blessed Jesus, wid de print er de nail een eh han an eh foot… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics description: Soon de blessed Jesus, wid de print er de nail een eh han an eh foot, an wid de star on eh head, drap right down tru de top er de house dout crack er shingle, an eh call me name, an eh tell me fuh rise, an eh pit eh han onder me shoulder, an eh liff me up light es er fedder. Who acts: de, er, top do --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/14/110/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/14/) / 110 # Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 110 Soon de blessed Jesus, wid de print er de nail een eh han an eh foot, an wid de star on eh head, drap right down tru de top er de house dout crack er shingle, an eh call me name, an eh tell me fuh rise, an eh pit eh han onder me shoulder, an eh liff me up light es er fedder. **Who acts:** de, er, top dout crack · **What happens:** bless, print, drap, crack, call, tell · **To what, where:** Jesus, er, me, fuh rise · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de, er, top dout crack), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76586:14:110 # text = Soon de blessed Jesus, wid de print er de nail een eh han an eh foot, an wid de star on eh head, drap right down tru de top er de house dout crack er shingle, an eh call me name, an eh tell me fuh rise, an eh pit eh han onder me shoulder, an eh liff me up light es er fedder. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 2 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 8 dep _ _ 8 print print VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 11 compound _ _ 11 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 een een NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 wid wid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 drap drap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 28 right right ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 tru tru X FW Foreign=Yes 43 dep _ _ 31 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 30 flat _ _ 32 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 33 er er X FW Foreign=Yes 37 nsubj _ _ 34 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 33 flat:foreign _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 dout dout NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 38 er er PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 shingle shingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 49 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 iobj _ _ 51 fuh fuh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 55 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 56 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 han han NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 59 onder onder ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nmod _ _ 61 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 eh eh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 liff liff NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ _ 66 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 65 conj _ _ 67 up up ADP RP _ 66 compound:prt _ _ 68 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 es e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 conj _ _ 70 er e ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 71 advmod _ _ 71 fedder fedder NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | past | de | Jesus | | | | soon, wid *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme | | 2 | **print** | infinitive | de *not said here* | er | | | | een eh han *obl*; de nail *obj*; a eh foot and a wid de star on eh head *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **drap** | infinitive | de *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **crack** | | er | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | top dout crack | me | | | | er's shingle and a eh *nsubj*; name *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme name=Result | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | top dout crack *not said here* | fuh rise a eh eh han me and shoulder | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rise=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. - ← previous: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/14/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/14/111/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/14/)