Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 19
_Jew_, dew _Jist_, just _Juk_, jerk
To what, where: _
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: 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 | root | root |
| 2 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dew | punct |
| 5 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jist | punct |
| 7 | Jist | Jist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jist | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Juk | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 Juk | advmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Juk | punct |
| 12 | Juk | Juk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Juk | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jerk | punct |
| 15 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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