Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Days of the Week, sentence 6
Added close quotation mark to sentence: “Tenky, tenky, ... me git all dis money.”
What happens: add · To what, where: close quotation mark
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Days of the Week. 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 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mark | amod |
| 3 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mark | compound |
| 4 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Added | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sentence | mark |
| 6 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mark | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tenky | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tenky | punct |
| 9 | Tenky | Tenky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sentence | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tenky | punct |
| 11 | tenky | tenky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tenky | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 git | punct |
| 13 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 15 git | punct |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 git | compound |
| 15 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tenky | appos |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 money | det |
| 17 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 money | compound |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tenky | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Added | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | participle | close quotation mark and sentence Tenky all dis money and tenky | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
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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