Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 149
Lamp day in day, but eh hab shade on um.
To what, where: Lamp day
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 | Lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | compound |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shade | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 shade | cc |
| 7 | eh | eh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shade | det |
| 8 | hab | hab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shade | amod |
| 9 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 um | case |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shade | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | 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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