Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 140
Eh gone home dat bex an hongry eh ready fuh kill ehself.
What happens: kill · To what, where: ehself
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 | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 gone | advmod |
| 4 | dat | dat | X | _ | 2 gone | vocative |
| 5 | bex | bex | X | _ | 4 dat | goeswith |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eh | det |
| 7 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eh | amod |
| 8 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | flat |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eh | amod |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 11 kill | discourse |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | infinitive | ehself | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Theme |
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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