Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
Eh clime one tree an fix ehself een one crotch.
To what, where: clime one tree
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 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | clime | clime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tree | nummod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fix | det |
| 6 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 een | nsubj |
| 7 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fix | appos |
| 8 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tree | nmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 crotch | nummod |
| 10 | crotch | crotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | 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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