Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 118
Soon es dis bin done eh say: ‘Jupter, yuh you chair; set een um.
Who acts: Soon es, you · What happens: dis, do, chair, set · To what, where: bin, een um
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 (Soon es, you), 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 | Soon | soon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 es | amod |
| 2 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dis | nsubj |
| 3 | dis | dis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dis | obj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dis | advcl |
| 6 | eh | eh | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jupter | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jupter | punct |
| 10 | Jupter | Jupter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dis | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chair | punct |
| 12 | yuh | yuh | INTJ | _ | 14 chair | discourse |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 chair | nsubj |
| 14 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Jupter | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dis | conj |
| 17 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 um | nummod |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dis | present | Soon es | bin | Jupter parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | present · passive | Soon es not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | chair | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Soon es not said here | een um | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient um=Result |
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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