Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 47
Him bin berry fond er eh Mossa, an eh ready any time fuh schway ter de tale wuh him tell bout how much deer dem kill, an way dem shoot um.
Who acts: er Mossa · What happens: tell, shoot · To what, where: bout, Him bin berry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (er Mossa), 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 | Him | him | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 berry | amod |
| 2 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 berry | compound |
| 3 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shoot | obl |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 berry | amod |
| 5 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Mossa | flat:foreign |
| 6 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 Mossa | discourse |
| 7 | Mossa | Mossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ready | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ready | det |
| 10 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ready | amod |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mossa | amod |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 ter | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fuh | compound |
| 14 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 15 | schway | schway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | obl |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 ter | flat:foreign |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | conj |
| 19 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 21 tell | discourse |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 berry | parataxis |
| 22 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kill | amod |
| 25 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dem | compound |
| 26 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kill | compound |
| 27 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dem | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dem | compound |
| 31 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shoot | obl |
| 32 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shoot | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | er Mossa | bout | Mossa nsubj; much dem kill obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bout=Recipient kill=Topic | |||
| 2 | shoot | present | Him bin berry | way dem obl; um obj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=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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