Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
Eh berry lub dead fish too, but eh nebber bodder wid crab.
To what, where: lub dead fish
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lub | compound |
| 3 | lub | lub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fish | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crab | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 crab | cc |
| 9 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bodder | amod |
| 10 | nebber | nebber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bodder | compound |
| 11 | bodder | bodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crab | compound |
| 12 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crab | amod |
| 13 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | 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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