Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 155
Wen dem all bin dance tel dem tired, dem all bague Buh Rooster fuh show dem de man wuh bin mek sich pooty music fuh dem fuh dance long.
Who acts: Wen dem · What happens: show · To what, where: dem man
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: who acts (Wen dem), 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 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dem | compound |
| 2 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dem | det |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dance | compound |
| 5 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tel | compound |
| 6 | tel | tel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dem | compound |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | nsubj |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dem | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dem | punct |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dem | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bague | det |
| 12 | bague | bague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | nsubj |
| 13 | Buh | Buh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bague | appos |
| 14 | Rooster | Rooster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buh | flat |
| 15 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 16 show | discourse |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | compound |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 dem | flat:foreign |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obj |
| 20 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 25 music | discourse |
| 21 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 music | compound |
| 22 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bin | flat |
| 23 | sich | sich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pooty | compound |
| 24 | pooty | pooty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 music | compound |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obl |
| 26 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 29 dance | discourse |
| 27 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dance | compound |
| 28 | fuh | fuh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dance | amod |
| 29 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | ccomp |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 dance | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | infinitive | Wen dem | dem man | bin pooty music obl; all tel dem and dem nsubj; all bague nsubj; dem fuh dance ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
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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