Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 49
Him fren couldnt see how dat happne, an dem yent bin want fuh bleeve de tale.
Who acts: Him fren, dat happne · What happens: see, want · To what, where: bleeve · 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 (Him fren, dat happne), 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 | 2 fren | amod |
| 2 | fren | fren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | couldnt | couldnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fren | flat |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dat | advmod |
| 6 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happne | amod |
| 7 | happne | happne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dem | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dem | det |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happne | conj |
| 11 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bin | amod |
| 12 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 14 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 13 want | discourse |
| 15 | bleeve | bleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 bleeve | flat:foreign |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bleeve | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Him fren | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | present | dat happne and a dem | bleeve and tale | yent bin nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bleeve=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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