Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 92
Enty we yeddy you sing an tenk de Lord case tunder an lightnin sen meat een you house?
Who acts: we, you, sen meat · What happens: yeddy, sing, house · To what, where: tenk de
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 (we, you, sen meat), 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 | Enty | enty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 yeddy | nummod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 yeddy | nsubj |
| 3 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 de | det |
| 7 | tenk | tenk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 de | compound |
| 8 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obj |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tunder | compound |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tunder | compound |
| 11 | tunder | tunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meat | det |
| 13 | lightnin | lightnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sen | compound |
| 14 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meat | compound |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nsubj |
| 16 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 meat | flat |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 house | nsubj |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeddy | we | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | you | a tenk de | Lord case tunder conj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location de=Theme | |||
| 3 | house | a sen meat | you nsubj | tree rules |
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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