Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 141
Eh bin dark wen eh retch de man house.
To what, where: de man house
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 | 6 retch | compound |
| 2 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Eh | flat |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wen | amod |
| 4 | wen | wen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eh | compound |
| 5 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retch | compound |
| 6 | retch | retch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nsubj |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 house | 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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