Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 94
“Las night, dis befo fus fowl crow, me bin er leddown een me bed.
Who acts: yeddy · What happens: bin · To what, where: leddown bed
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 | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 2 | Las | las | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bin | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dis | punct |
| 5 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | conj |
| 6 | befo | befo | ADP | _ | 9 crow | case |
| 7 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crow | amod |
| 8 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crow | compound |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dis | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bin | nsubj |
| 12 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 bed | advmod |
| 14 | leddown | leddown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bed | compound |
| 15 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leddown | flat |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 leddown | flat |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bin | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin in a quote | present | yeddy | leddown bed | night | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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