Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 20
“Yes, Mossa, ef I bin know dem befo dey dead, I kin know dem now.
Who acts: time me jine, Mossa · What happens: bin, know · To what, where: Mossa, dem
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 (time me jine, Mossa), 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 | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 Mossa | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mossa | punct |
| 4 | Mossa | Mossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ef | punct |
| 6 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mossa | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bin | nsubj |
| 8 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Mossa | acl:relcl |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 13 dead | case |
| 12 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 know | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | conj |
| 18 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 know | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | time me jine and a fuh dem conbersation and a fine dem yis and a dey = jine | Mossa and ef not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mossa=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | Mossa and ef | dem | befo dead dey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dem=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | time me jine and a fuh dem conbersation and a fine dem yis and a dey = jine | dem | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dem=Stimulus |
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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