Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 88
De Buckra man gen um de prommus an len um de horse.
To what, where: um de prommus
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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 2 | Buckra | Buckra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 De | flat |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gen | compound |
| 4 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 um | compound |
| 5 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prommus | compound |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 prommus | compound |
| 7 | prommus | prommus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 um | det |
| 9 | len | len | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 um | amod |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prommus | appos |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 horse | compound |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 um | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prommus | 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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