Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 237
One gone to de fus mile pose on de big road.
What happens: go · To what, where: fus mile pose, One
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | acl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pose | case |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 pose | nsubj |
| 5 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pose | amod |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pose | compound |
| 7 | pose | pose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 road | compound |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pose | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | fus mile pose on de big road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pose=Initial_Location |
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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