Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 145
Eh tan right at de mouf er de big hole way de smoke an de fire duh bile out.
To what, where: big hole way
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: 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tan | compound |
| 2 | tan | Tan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 mouf | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 mouf | case |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 mouf | compound |
| 6 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tan | nmod |
| 7 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 way | nsubj |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 way | nsubj |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | compound |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 smoke | compound |
| 13 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bile | compound |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | compound |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bile | compound |
| 17 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 16 fire | discourse |
| 18 | bile | bile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 bile | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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