Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 157
Eh so full er fish an crab eh casely kin crawl.
To what, where: full er fish
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 full | advmod |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crab | det |
| 7 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | conj |
| 8 | eh | eh | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 7 crab | appos |
| 9 | casely | casely | X | _ | 8 eh | goeswith |
| 10 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crawl | amod |
| 11 | crawl | crawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eh | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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