Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
My leely Sue, wuh dead, blan come an play bout de house ebry now an den.
Who acts: blan · What happens: come · To what, where: play bout, leely Sue
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 (blan), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Sue | nmod:poss |
| 2 | leely | leely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sue | amod |
| 3 | Sue | Sue | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sue | punct |
| 5 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 6 dead | discourse |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sue | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 8 | blan | blan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Sue | acl:relcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bout | det |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bout | compound |
| 12 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ebry | compound |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ebry | compound |
| 15 | ebry | ebry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bout | appos |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 den | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 den | det |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | blan | a play bout | a den obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bout=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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