Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 140
“Arter me bin in Hebben good wile, de blessed Master, him say: ‘Come, Jupter, I gwine show you way de bad people go.’
Who acts: Arter, de, bad people · What happens: bin, bless, say, come, show, go · To what, where: Master, Jupter, way, you · 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 (Arter, de, bad people), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 2 | Arter | Arter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Arter | iobj |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wile | case |
| 6 | Hebben | Hebben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wile | compound |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wile | amod |
| 8 | wile | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 de | punct |
| 10 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wile | conj |
| 11 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 de | acl |
| 12 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blessed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 18 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 say | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Jupter | punct |
| 20 | Jupter | Jupter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 show | nsubj |
| 23 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 show | nsubj |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Come | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 show | iobj |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 show | obj |
| 27 | de | de | ADV | _ | 28 bad | advmod |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 go | nsubj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 way | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | Arter me | while | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bless in a quote | participle | de not said here | Master | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Arter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | Jupter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show in a quote | present | Arter | way | you | gwine nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 6 | go in a quote | present | bad people | way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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