Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 299
Enty you yeddy me tell you fuh mobe?
What happens: tell · To what, where: Enty yeddy, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Enty | Enty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yeddy | compound |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Enty | flat |
| 3 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 yeddy | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 8 | mobe | mobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Enty yeddy me | you | mobe obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mobe=Topic |
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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