Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 206
Me know who mek all dis trouble fur me.
What happens: know, mek · To what, where: trouble fur · 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 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 | me | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | aux |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 mek | nsubj |
| 4 | mek | mek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 fur | det |
| 6 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trouble | compound |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fur | compound |
| 8 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mek | obj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fur | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||||
| 2 | mek | present | all trouble fur me | who nsubj | tree 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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