Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 134
Eh yen gwine tek long.
To what, where: yen gwine tek
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. 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 | 4 tek | nsubj |
| 2 | yen | yen | X | _ | 4 tek | compound |
| 3 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tek | compound |
| 4 | tek | tek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tek | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tek | 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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