Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
One berry big Snake--de farruh er all dem tarruh snake wuh lib in de swamp--notus de po man.
To what, where: One berry
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 4. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 berry | nummod |
| 2 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Snake | amod |
| 4 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 berry | conj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 berry | punct |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 berry | conj |
| 7 | farruh | farruh | INTJ | _ | 2 berry | conj |
| 8 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 farruh | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 snake | det |
| 10 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snake | compound |
| 11 | tarruh | tarruh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snake | compound |
| 12 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 er | nsubj |
| 13 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 14 lib | discourse |
| 14 | lib | lib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snake | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 swamp | case |
| 16 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 swamp | amod |
| 17 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lib | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 notus | punct |
| 19 | notus | notus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lib | conj |
| 20 | de | de | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | compound |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 notus | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 berry | 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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