Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 67
Eh gone in de boat an eh eat up de fish wuh day day.
Who acts: Eh, gone eh · What happens: go, eat up · To what, where: de boat
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: who acts (Eh, gone eh), 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 | 2 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 eh | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | obl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 eh | det |
| 7 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 eat | compound:prt |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 fish | case |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obl |
| 12 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 14 day | discourse |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | Eh | de boat | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat up | present | a gone eh | day | de fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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