Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 87
As I was about to depart, Cæsar said: “Mossa, Uncle Jupter bin hab er wision las night.
Who acts: I, Cæsar, Mossa, hab er wision · What happens: be, depart, say, bin, la · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Cæsar, Mossa, hab er wision), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 about | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 depart | mark |
| 6 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
| 8 | Cæsar | Cæsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mossa | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mossa | punct |
| 12 | Mossa | Mossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Uncle | punct |
| 14 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mossa | appos |
| 15 | Jupter | Jupter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Uncle | flat |
| 16 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wision | compound |
| 18 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wision | compound |
| 19 | wision | wision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 las | nsubj |
| 20 | las | la | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bin | ccomp |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 las | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cæsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bin in a quote | present | Mossa | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | la in a quote | present | hab er wision | night | 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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