Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 3, sentence 161
Wenebber, duh night, eh yeddy any er um duh crow er der fix ehself topper eh roose, eh mek fuh de place an eat um up.
Who acts: Wenebber, topper, de place · What happens: crow, fix, roose, eat up · To what, where: mek, ehself, um
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 (Wenebber, topper, de place), 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 | Wenebber | Wenebber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crow | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wenebber | punct |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 4 night | discourse |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wenebber | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yeddy | punct |
| 6 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 yeddy | discourse |
| 7 | yeddy | yeddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wenebber | list |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 um | det |
| 9 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 um | compound |
| 10 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wenebber | appos |
| 11 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 12 crow | discourse |
| 12 | crow | crow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 crow | advmod |
| 14 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 er | xcomp |
| 15 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 crow | conj |
| 16 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fix | obj |
| 17 | topper | topper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fix | obj |
| 18 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 19 roose | discourse |
| 19 | roose | roose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 topper | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mek | punct |
| 21 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 22 mek | discourse |
| 22 | mek | MEK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crow | obl |
| 23 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 25 place | discourse |
| 24 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 place | compound |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crow | obl |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 eat | det |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eat | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 eat | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | infinitive | Wenebber yeddy | mek | de place obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fix | infinitive | Wenebber yeddy not said here | ehself | topper obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ehself=Beneficiary topper=Product | |||
| 3 | roose | infinitive | topper not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat up | present | de place not said here | um | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Patient |
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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