Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 3
Dem dont tetch de groun wid dem foot, but dem sorter dis skim pon topper de grass.
Who acts: sorter dis · What happens: topper · To what, where: Dem dont tetch
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 (sorter dis), 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 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tetch | compound |
| 2 | dont | dont | X | _ | 3 tetch | compound |
| 3 | tetch | tetch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 tetch | flat:foreign |
| 5 | groun | groun | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 tetch | conj |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 foot | amod |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | compound |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groun | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 topper | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 topper | cc |
| 11 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorter | compound |
| 12 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dis | compound |
| 13 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 topper | nsubj |
| 14 | skim | skim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 topper | compound |
| 15 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 topper | compound |
| 16 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tetch | conj |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 topper | flat:foreign |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 topper | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | topper | sorter dis | grass appos | 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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