Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 97
Eberyting on de plantation gone bed.
What happens: eberyt, go · To what, where: de plantation
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 | Eberyting | eberyt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 plantation | case |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plantation | compound |
| 4 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eberyting | obl |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bed | amod |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plantation | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eberyting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eberyt | gerund | de plantation and gone bed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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