Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 66
Tenky goolly God, tunder an lightnin done sen meat een me house.”
What happens: do · To what, where: meat house
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 | Tenky | Tenky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nsubj |
| 2 | goolly | goolly | ADV | _ | 3 God | advmod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tenky | acl:relcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tunder | punct |
| 5 | tunder | tunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tenky | appos |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lightnin | det |
| 7 | lightnin | lightnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nsubj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 meat | amod |
| 9 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meat | compound |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 11 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 meat | flat |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 meat | iobj |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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