Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 323
Me tell you, fuh de las time, tun me loose.
What happens: tell, tun · To what, where: you, me · 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 | Me | me | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | aux |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 5 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 2 tell | discourse |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 time | dep |
| 7 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tun | punct |
| 10 | tun | tun | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tun | obj |
| 12 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 10 tun | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | you | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | tun | infinitive | me | loose property | 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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