Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 183
De dog holler an run roun de tree.
What happens: run · To what, where: De dog holler
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2. 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | compound |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holler | compound |
| 3 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nmod:desc |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 run | det |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obj |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roun | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | De dog holler | roun and de tree obj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme roun=Trajectory |
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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