Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
Dem cant hot nobody.
To what, where: Dem cant
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 | Dem | dem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cant | amod |
| 2 | cant | cant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobody | amod |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 cant | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cant | 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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