Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 53
De ole King, wen eh yeddy dis message, mek up eh mine say de noung King mus hab heap er sense, er else some wise man muster help um; an eh couldnt see how dat kin be, case all de ole an de wise people een de nation done kill.
Who acts: wen eh, ole King, mine, some, wise man muster, eh couldnt · What happens: message, mek up, say, muster, help, be · To what, where: de, um, een nation, kill · 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 (wen eh, ole King, mine, some), 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 | 11 mek | advmod |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mek | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 message | punct |
| 5 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eh | compound |
| 6 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 message | nsubj |
| 7 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dis | compound |
| 8 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 message | compound |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mek | punct |
| 11 | mek | mek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 mek | compound:prt |
| 13 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 11 mek | advmod |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 say | obj |
| 17 | noung | noung | ADP | _ | 21 heap | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | nsubj |
| 19 | mus | mus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | compound |
| 20 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | compound |
| 21 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 de | nmod |
| 22 | er | e | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 sense | amod |
| 23 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heap | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 er | punct |
| 25 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 30 muster | discourse |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 er | advmod |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 muster | nsubj |
| 28 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 muster | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 muster | compound |
| 30 | muster | muster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 help | nsubj |
| 31 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | parataxis |
| 32 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 help | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 couldnt | det |
| 35 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 couldnt | amod |
| 36 | couldnt | couldnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | nsubj |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | conj |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 dat | advmod |
| 39 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 kin | amod |
| 40 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | obj |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 see | cop |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 case | punct |
| 43 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | obl |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 people | nsubj |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 all | flat:foreign |
| 46 | ole | ole | ADP | _ | 48 de | case |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 de | det |
| 48 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 all | nmod |
| 49 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 people | amod |
| 50 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 case | nmod |
| 51 | een | een | X | Foreign=Yes | 53 nation | amod |
| 52 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 51 een | flat |
| 53 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 people | nmod |
| 54 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 people | acl |
| 55 | kill | kill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 done | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | message | wen eh | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mek up | infinitive | ole King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | mine | de | noung mus hab heap King and er sense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent de=Topic | |||
| 4 | muster | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | help | present | wise man muster | um | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | a eh couldnt | case obl; dat kin obj; see property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | people | all ole a de | een nation | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | do | participle | wise people not said here | kill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=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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