Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 47
Er ole King yeddy say dem gwine pit er noung King een him place.
Who acts: ole King yeddy · What happens: say · To what, where: pit er · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ole King yeddy), 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 | Er | er | INTJ | _ | 5 say | discourse |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yeddy | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 yeddy | compound |
| 4 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gwine | compound |
| 7 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pit | compound |
| 8 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 er | compound |
| 9 | er | er | X | _ | 5 say | obj |
| 10 | noung | noung | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 er | nmod |
| 12 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 place | nummod |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 er | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ole King yeddy | pit er | noung King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent er=Topic |
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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