Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 113
We gone an we gone way up tel we git ter er big alablaster house, wid high piazza all roun an roun, wuh shine same luk de sun, buil in de middle er a beautiful gaden wid flower, an fruit, an hummin-bud, an butterfly, an angel wid harp duh sing an duh joy ehself onder de tree.
Who acts: We · What happens: go, way, er, sing · To what, where: big alablaster house, duh joy
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: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | gone | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tel | case |
| 8 | tel | tel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 er | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 er | nsubj |
| 10 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 we | conj |
| 12 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gone | parataxis |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 14 | alablaster | alablaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | compound |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 er | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 piazza | punct |
| 17 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 piazza | amod |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 piazza | amod |
| 19 | piazza | piazza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | appos |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 roun | det |
| 21 | roun | roun | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 piazza | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 roun | det |
| 23 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roun | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 luk | punct |
| 25 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 28 luk | discourse |
| 26 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 luk | compound |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 luk | amod |
| 28 | luk | luk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | conj |
| 29 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 sun | compound |
| 30 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 luk | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 buil | punct |
| 32 | buil | buil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 luk | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 middle | case |
| 34 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 middle | compound |
| 35 | middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 buil | nmod |
| 36 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 flower | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 flower | det |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flower | amod |
| 39 | gaden | gaden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flower | amod |
| 40 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flower | amod |
| 41 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 buil | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fruit | punct |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 fruit | det |
| 44 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 flower | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 bud | punct |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 bud | det |
| 47 | hummin | hummin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bud | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 hummin | punct |
| 49 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 flower | parataxis |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 butterfly | punct |
| 51 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 butterfly | det |
| 52 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bud | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 harp | punct |
| 54 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 harp | det |
| 55 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 harp | compound |
| 56 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 harp | amod |
| 57 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 flower | parataxis |
| 58 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 57 harp | discourse |
| 59 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 er | conj |
| 60 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 joy | det |
| 61 | duh | duh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 joy | amod |
| 62 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 sing | obj |
| 63 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 joy | nmod |
| 64 | onder | onder | ADV | _ | 66 tree | advmod |
| 65 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 tree | nmod:poss |
| 66 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 ehself | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | We | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | way | we | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | er | present | we | big alablaster house and shine same luk and de sun and buil in de middle and a beautiful gaden wid flower a hummin bud and a butterfly a angel wid harp and a fruit | up tel | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | infinitive | we not said here | a duh joy ehself de's tree | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=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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