Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 47
Many time dem people wuh cant see sperit come pon top dem an dunno nuttne bout um.
Who acts: wuh cant, Many dem people · What happens: see, come · To what, where: sperit, pon top dem
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 (wuh cant, Many dem people), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dem | compound |
| 3 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | compound |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | wuh | wuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cant | amod |
| 6 | cant | cant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | sperit | sperit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pon | pon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dem | compound |
| 11 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dem | amod |
| 12 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 um | det |
| 14 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nuttne | compound |
| 15 | nuttne | nuttne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bout | compound |
| 16 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 um | compound |
| 17 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | wuh cant | sperit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sperit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | present | Many dem people | pon top dem | a bout um obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dem=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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