Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 159
De man answer: “Yes, me yiz.”
To what, where: man answer
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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | compound |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answer | compound |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answer | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 yiz | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 yiz | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 yiz | compound |
| 9 | yiz | yiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answer | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 yiz | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 yiz | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/159/