Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 117
Wid dat de Lord, him call teh one angel, an eh tell um fuh bring one chair an set um down befo eh trone.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: call, bring down · To what, where: Wid dat, one chair · 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 3 | de | de | ADP | _ | 4 Lord | case |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | teh | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art Typo=Yes | 10 angel | det |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 angel | nummod |
| 10 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fuh | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fuh | det |
| 13 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fuh | amod |
| 14 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 um | compound |
| 15 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fuh | compound |
| 16 | fuh | fuh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 angel | conj |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 call | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 chair | nummod |
| 19 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 um | det |
| 21 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 um | amod |
| 22 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 bring | compound:prt |
| 24 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 26 trone | case |
| 25 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trone | det |
| 26 | trone | trone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Lord | Wid dat de Lord | the one angel and a eh um fuh obj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring down | infinitive | Lord not said here | one chair | befo eh trone; a set um obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument chair=Theme um=Destination |
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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