Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 340
Enty you tell me you no blan wisit me spring fuh git water?
Who acts: Enty, me · What happens: tell, spring · To what, where: blan wisit, you, fuh git water · 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: who acts (Enty, me), 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 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 wisit | det |
| 7 | blan | blan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wisit | amod |
| 8 | wisit | wisit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 spring | nsubj |
| 10 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wisit | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 12 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | compound |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spring | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Enty | no blan wisit | you | me iobj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | spring | present | me | fuh git water | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location water=Theme |
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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