Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 135
Eh belly an eh mouf puff out.
To what, where: eh mouf puff
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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 belly | compound |
| 2 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puff | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 puff | det |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 puff | amod |
| 5 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puff | compound |
| 6 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 puff | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 puff | 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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