Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 149
Me hab plenty er bittle fuh eat.
What happens: eat · To what, where: hab plenty
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hab | compound |
| 2 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plenty | compound |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | er | er | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 3 plenty | appos |
| 5 | bittle | bittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plenty | appos |
| 6 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 7 eat | discourse |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bittle | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plenty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | infinitive | 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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