Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
Ef you bin do es me bin tell you, an keep you big mout shet, you bin hab um all two now.”
Who acts: you, Ef · What happens: bin, do, tell, keep · To what, where: Ef, es, you, hab um · 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 (you, Ef), 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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bin | nsubj |
| 3 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ef | acl:relcl |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 es | nmod |
| 7 | bin | bin | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 keep | det |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shet | amod |
| 15 | mout | mout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shet | compound |
| 16 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bin | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bin | nsubj |
| 19 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 keep | conj |
| 20 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 um | compound |
| 21 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bin | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 two | advmod |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bin | obl |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 two | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | you | Ef not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ef=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Ef | es me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Ef not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | you | big mout shet xcomp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bin | present | you | hab um | two obl | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent um=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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