Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 15, sentence 3
Oh, Mossa! dat ting wuh dem call Hell duh a bad place.
To what, where: ting dem call
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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 Mossa | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | Mossa | Mossa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mossa | punct |
| 5 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ting | det |
| 6 | ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | compound |
| 7 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 6 ting | discourse |
| 8 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | compound |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 call | appos |
| 11 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 14 place | discourse |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Hell | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
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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