Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 38
Him couldnt shum, cause George yent bin born wid caul.
Who acts: George yent bin · What happens: bear · To what, where: wid caul, couldnt shum
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 (George yent bin), 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 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shum | nsubj |
| 2 | couldnt | couldnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shum | compound |
| 3 | shum | shum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bin | punct |
| 5 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 8 bin | case |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bin | compound |
| 7 | yent | yent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bin | amod |
| 8 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shum | appos |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bin | acl |
| 10 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 caul | amod |
| 11 | caul | caul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | George yent bin not said here | wid caul | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caul=Patient |
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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