Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 26
Wen eh lean back, an shet eh yeye, an draw eh bow fuh tru, nobody wuh yeddy kin keep from shuffle eh foot.
Who acts: Wen, eh yeye, nobody · What happens: lean back, bow, kin, keep · To what, where: shuffle eh foot
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 (Wen, eh yeye, nobody), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lean | nsubj |
| 2 | eh | eh | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 lean | dep |
| 3 | lean | lean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 lean | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yeye | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 yeye | det |
| 7 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eh | compound |
| 8 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yeye | compound |
| 9 | yeye | yeye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bow | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eh | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eh | det |
| 12 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eh | compound |
| 13 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yeye | appos |
| 14 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lean | parataxis |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 3 lean | discourse |
| 16 | tru | tru | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 lean | dep |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kin | punct |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 kin | nsubj |
| 19 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 18 nobody | discourse |
| 20 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kin | compound |
| 21 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obl |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lean | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 24 | shuffle | shuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foot | compound |
| 25 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 foot | amod |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean back | infinitive | Wen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bow | present | a eh yeye | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kin | nobody | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | keep | present | shuffle eh foot | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from foot=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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