Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 277
De same ebenin eh mek Tar Baby, an eh gone an set um right in de middle er de trail wuh lead to de spring, an dist in front er de spring.
Who acts: eh, er wuh lead · What happens: go, lead, de · To what, where: set um, same ebenin eh
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: who acts (eh, er wuh lead), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eh | nsubj |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eh | amod |
| 3 | ebenin | ebenin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eh | compound |
| 4 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eh | appos |
| 6 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mek | flat |
| 7 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mek | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eh | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 eh | det |
| 10 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | nsubj |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 eh | acl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 um | det |
| 13 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 um | amod |
| 14 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obj |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 er | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 er | case |
| 17 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 er | compound |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 er | compound |
| 19 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | compound |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 er | flat:foreign |
| 21 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wuh | compound |
| 22 | wuh | wuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | compound |
| 23 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eh | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 de | case |
| 25 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lead | acl |
| 26 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 de | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dist | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dist | det |
| 29 | dist | dist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 er | case |
| 31 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dist | nmod |
| 33 | de | de | ADP | _ | 34 spring | case |
| 34 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | a eh not said here | a set um | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location um=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | a eh | a dist in front er de spring conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | de | infinitive | er wuh lead and a dist in front er de spring not said here | spring | 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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