Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 42
Dem cant dance er foot furder, an dem duh try fuh keep de time long dem head.
Who acts: Dem cant foot furder · What happens: try, keep
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 (Dem cant foot furder), 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 | Dem | dem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 furder | amod |
| 2 | cant | cant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 furder | amod |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | compound |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foot | compound |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furder | compound |
| 6 | furder | furder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dem | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dem | det |
| 9 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furder | conj |
| 10 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 11 try | discourse |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 13 keep | discourse |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 head | amod |
| 17 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | compound |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | infinitive | Dem cant foot furder and a dem | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | infinitive | Dem cant foot furder and a dem not said here | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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