Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 7
Way dem gwine git any mo?
To what, where: dem gwine git
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 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dem | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 git | compound |
| 3 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 git | amod |
| 4 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 mo | det |
| 6 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 git | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 git | 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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