Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 108
Me hard fuh bleebe me own yez.
What happens: bleebe · To what, where: me
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 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 4 bleebe | discourse |
| 4 | bleebe | bleebe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hard | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bleebe | obj |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bleebe | xcomp |
| 7 | yez | yez | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 bleebe | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleebe | infinitive | me | own property | 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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