Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 128
Eh bring um een a nice glass tumbler, an eh gen me fuh drink.
Who acts: you, eh gen · What happens: bring, drink · To what, where: 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 (you, eh gen), 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 | Eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 2 bring | discourse |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bring | obj |
| 4 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 um | flat |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tumbler | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tumbler | amod |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tumbler | compound |
| 8 | tumbler | tumbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drink | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gen | det |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gen | amod |
| 12 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drink | nsubj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 drink | nsubj |
| 14 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drink | amod |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tumbler | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | um | a nice glass tumbler and fuh drink obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent um=Destination tumbler=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | a eh gen | me nsubj | 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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