Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 39
De faster de fiddler play, de faster dem dance.
To what, where: de fiddler play
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 | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 play | nsubj |
| 2 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 play | advmod |
| 3 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 play | amod |
| 4 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | compound |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 de | punct |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 play | conj |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 dance | amod |
| 9 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dance | compound |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 de | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | 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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