Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 214
Wen de rain duh po down, eh set on de fench an eh squinch up isself.
What happens: set · To what, where: Wen, de fench
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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Wen | flat:foreign |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | flat |
| 4 | duh | duh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 po | amod |
| 5 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wen | appos |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 po | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wen | punct |
| 8 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 9 set | discourse |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fench | case |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 fench | compound |
| 12 | fench | fench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 squinch | det |
| 14 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 squinch | amod |
| 15 | squinch | squinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fench | appos |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 isself | case |
| 17 | isself | isself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 squinch | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle · passive | Wen | de fench | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fench=Destination |
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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