Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 63
“No, sir; you see dem all size, leetle an big, man an ooman, gal an boy, an leely baby.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, leetle, gal · To what, where: dem, big man, boy
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 (you), 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 | _ | 12 leetle | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | vocative |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leetle | advcl |
| 8 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 size | det |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 12 | leetle | leetle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 big | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leetle | obj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ooman | det |
| 18 | ooman | ooman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leetle | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gal | punct |
| 20 | gal | gal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 leetle | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gal | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 baby | punct |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 baby | det |
| 25 | leely | leely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 baby | amod |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 leetle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | dem | all size obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leetle in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a big man | a ooman obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gal in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a boy and a leely baby | tree rules |
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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