Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
Den dem skin um an share de meat.
To what, where: dem skin
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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dem | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | compound |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | um | um | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 meat | det |
| 6 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 de | compound |
| 7 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | compound |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 skin | 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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