Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 103
My! but dem bin pooty!
To what, where: bin pooty
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pooty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pooty | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 pooty | cc |
| 4 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | compound |
| 5 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pooty | compound |
| 6 | pooty | pooty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pooty | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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