Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 18
_Ile me bade_, grease my mouth _Isself_, himself, herself, itself, themselves
Who acts: _ Ile · What happens: grease · To what, where: mouth
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ Ile), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ile | compound |
| 2 | Ile | Ile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grease | nsubj |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Ile | iobj |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ile | flat:foreign |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ile | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grease | punct |
| 7 | grease | grease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grease | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Isself | punct |
| 11 | Isself | isself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grease | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 grease | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 himself | punct |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 grease | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 herself | punct |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 himself | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 itself | punct |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 herself | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 himself | punct |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 grease | obl:unmarked |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grease | infinitive | _ Ile me | my mouth | Isself obl; Ile obl; Haky obl:unmarked | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mouth=Destination |
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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