Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 93
“Well, yeddy me,” replied the old man, and he spoke as follows:--
Who acts: yeddy · What happens: reply, speak, follow · To what, where: old man · 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 (yeddy), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 yeddy | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 yeddy | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yeddy | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yeddy | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoke | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 follows | mark |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoke | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | yeddy me | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | yeddy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | present | yeddy not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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