Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 146
Eh fren all holler out at de top er dem woice: “Me me.
To what, where: Eh fren
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fren | compound |
| 2 | fren | fren | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 holler | det |
| 4 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fren | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 fren | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 woice | case |
| 7 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woice | det |
| 8 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woice | amod |
| 9 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dem | compound |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woice | compound |
| 11 | woice | woice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fren | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Me | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Me | punct |
| 14 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fren | nmod:poss |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Me | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fren | 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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