Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 25
Eh know better den all dem tarruh people wuffer do long fiddle.
Who acts: you, people wuffer · What happens: know, do · To what, where: better den, long fiddle · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people wuffer), 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 | INTJ | _ | 2 know | discourse |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 den | amod |
| 4 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 wuffer | det |
| 6 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tarruh | compound |
| 7 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wuffer | compound |
| 9 | wuffer | wuffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fiddle | amod |
| 12 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | better den | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | all people wuffer | long fiddle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Eventuality |
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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