Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 22
Only tarruh night me bin comin from Barnedo plantation.
What happens: bin · To what, where: comin, Barnedo plantation
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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 night | advmod |
| 2 | tarruh | tarruh | INTJ | _ | 3 night | discourse |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 night | nmod |
| 5 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 plantation | case |
| 8 | Barnedo | Barnedo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 plantation | compound |
| 9 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bin | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | comin | Barnedo plantation | night | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent comin=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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