Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 59

One day big tunder storm rise een de wes, an eh rain, an eh lightnin, an eh hail.

Who acts: you · What happens: rise · To what, where: een

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 (you), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	obl:unmarked
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 storm	amod
4	tunder	tunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 storm	compound
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	compound
6	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	een	een	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rise	obj
8	de	de	ADP	_	9 wes	case
9	wes	we	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rise	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rain	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rain	det
12	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rain	compound
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lightnin	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lightnin	det
16	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lightnin	amod
17	lightnin	lightnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rain	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hail	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hail	det
20	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hail	amod
21	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rain	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	imperative	you not said here	een			day	de wes a eh rain and a eh lightnin and a eh hail; big tunder storm compound	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location een=Theme

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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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 59