Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 282
So eh tek eh calabash an hop off fuh de spring.
To what, where: hop spring
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 spring | advmod |
| 2 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 calabash | det |
| 3 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calabash | compound |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 calabash | amod |
| 5 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spring | nsubj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hop | det |
| 7 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spring | compound |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 de | case |
| 9 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 de | compound |
| 10 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hop | nmod |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spring | 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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