Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 221
No use fur me fuh buil house now.”
To what, where: buil house
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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 fur | det |
| 2 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fur | compound |
| 3 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nsubj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fur | nmod |
| 5 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 7 house | discourse |
| 6 | buil | buil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 house | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | 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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