Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 44
Me kin tell you bout heap er people me bin meet an see arter dem done dead an bury.
Who acts: Me, people, see arter dem · What happens: tell, bin, meet, see, do · To what, where: bout heap, you, see arter dem, bury · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Me, people, see arter dem), 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 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heap | compound |
| 6 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | er | er | SCONJ | _ | 10 bin | mark |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bin | nsubj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod |
| 10 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | advcl |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bin | xcomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dem | det |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dem | compound |
| 14 | arter | arter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dem | compound |
| 15 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meet | obj |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dem | acl |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 done | xcomp |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bury | det |
| 19 | bury | bury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | Me | bout heap | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heap=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bin | present | people me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | infinitive | people me not said here | a see arter dem | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dem=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | do | participle | a see arter dem not said here | a bury | dead property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bury=Eventuality |
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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