Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 141
One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead.
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 ole | advmod |
| 4 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 berry | amod |
| 5 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Frog | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bull | punct |
| 7 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bin | compound |
| 8 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 berry | compound |
| 9 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fuh | det |
| 12 | spectin | spectin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fuh | compound |
| 13 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sick | 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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