Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Days of the Week, sentence 8
Changed ‘ob er’ to ‘ober’ ... all ober sutten, ...
What happens: change · To what, where: ob er
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 | Changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 3 | ob | ob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | compound |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Changed | obl |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 er | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ober | case |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ober | punct |
| 8 | ober | ober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | nmod |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ober | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 sutten | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sutten | det |
| 12 | ober | ober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sutten | amod |
| 13 | sutten | sutten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sutten | punct |
| 15 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | ob er to ober | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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