Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 17
Me bin question dem mo na once, but dem nebber will mek answer.
Who acts: dem nebber · What happens: mek · To what, where: answer, Me bin question
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 (dem nebber), 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 | Me | me | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 2 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | compound |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mo | compound |
| 5 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | na | na | ADV | _ | 7 once | advmod |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 question | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mek | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 mek | cc |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nebber | compound |
| 11 | nebber | nebber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mek | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mek | aux |
| 13 | mek | mek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 question | conj |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mek | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mek | future | dem nebber | answer | 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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