Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 98
Me bin study bout de time wen ole Jupter hab ter meet him Lord and Master, an me berry happy een me bussum.
Who acts: Jupter hab ter, Lord · What happens: meet, berry · To what, where: ole, een
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 (Jupter hab ter, Lord), 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 | Me | me | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bout | amod |
| 2 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 study | compound |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bout | compound |
| 4 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | dep |
| 5 | de | de | ADP | _ | 8 ole | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ole | compound |
| 7 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ole | compound |
| 8 | ole | ole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obl |
| 9 | Jupter | Jupter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 10 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 berry | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Master | cc |
| 16 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lord | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 me | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 me | det |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Lord | parataxis |
| 20 | berry | berry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 meet | parataxis |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 berry | xcomp |
| 22 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 berry | obl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | bussum | bussum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 een | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Jupter hab ter | ole | de time wen ole; Me study bout dep | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | berry | infinitive | Lord me and Master | een me bussum | happy property | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: 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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