Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 120
Eh wife eenwite all eh fren ter de funeral.
To what, where: Eh wife eenwite
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eenwite | compound |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eenwite | compound |
| 3 | eenwite | eenwite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ter | det |
| 5 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ter | amod |
| 6 | fren | fren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ter | amod |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eenwite | appos |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 ter | flat:foreign |
| 9 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ter | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eenwite | 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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