Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 34
De man holler and try fuh skaid de beas, but eh wunt skaid.
What happens: try · To what, where: skaid beas, De man holler
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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | compound |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | compound |
| 3 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 try | cc |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 holler | conj |
| 6 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 beas | discourse |
| 7 | skaid | skaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beas | compound |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 skaid | flat:foreign |
| 9 | beas | bea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 try | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 skaid | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 skaid | cc |
| 12 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skaid | det |
| 13 | wunt | wunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skaid | compound |
| 14 | skaid | skaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | infinitive | skaid beas | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bea=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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