Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
“You member Jacob wuh dem bin heng een de Boro?
To what, where: member
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 member | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 member | nsubj |
| 3 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 member | appos |
| 5 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 8 heng | discourse |
| 6 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bin | compound |
| 7 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heng | compound |
| 8 | heng | heng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 member | conj |
| 9 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 heng | flat |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 Boro | case |
| 11 | Boro | Boro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heng | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 member | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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