Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 122
Eh gone down one road; eh tun back; eh tan ter de fork.
What happens: go down · To what, where: one road
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 3. 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 | ADV | _ | 2 gone | advmod |
| 2 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 gone | compound:prt |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 road | nummod |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 tun | punct |
| 7 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tun | det |
| 8 | tun | tun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 tun | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ter | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ter | amod |
| 12 | tan | tan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ter | amod |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tun | conj |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 ter | flat:foreign |
| 15 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ter | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | participle | one road | eh tun and eh tan ter and fork parataxis | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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