Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 16
Ef you shoot an kill one er dem pigeon, de edder two boun fuh fly way, an none gwine leff.”
Who acts: Ef, edder boun · What happens: shoot, fly · To what, where: kill, way
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: who acts (Ef, edder boun), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kill | det |
| 5 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pigeon | nummod |
| 7 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dem | compound |
| 8 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pigeon | compound |
| 9 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boun | punct |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 edder | compound |
| 12 | edder | edder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boun | compound |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 edder | flat |
| 14 | boun | boun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | parataxis |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 16 fly | discourse |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 boun | acl |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leff | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leff | det |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 gwine | compound |
| 21 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leff | compound |
| 22 | leff | leff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boun | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoot | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | Ef | a kill | you nsubj; one dem pigeon conj; edder boun and a gwine leff parataxis | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | infinitive | edder boun and a gwine leff not said here | way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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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