Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
Eh holler, but eh couldnt git out.
To what, where: Eh holler
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 holler | compound |
| 2 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 git | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 git | cc |
| 5 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 git | det |
| 6 | couldnt | couldnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | compound |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 holler | nmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 git | compound:prt |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 holler | 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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