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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 4, sentence 173

Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob me outer wuh money me hab leff.

Who acts: you, outer money · What happens: fix, kill, bin, rob, leff · To what, where: plan, me, you, Mo na dat

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: who acts (you, outer money), 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

compoundcompoundpunctnsubjdetconjaclobjdiscoursexcompobjdiscourseadvcl:relclobjobjpunctdetparataxisobjamoddiscoursensubjnsubjcompoundparataxispunctrootMoPROPNnaXdatNOUN:PUNCTyouPRONanDEThimPRONfixVERBplanNOUNfuhINTJkillVERBmePRONwuhINTJbinVERByouPRONfrenNOUN,PUNCTanDETrobVERBmePRONouterADJwuhINTJmoneyNOUNmePRONhabNOUNleffNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MoMoPROPNNumber=Sing3 datcompound
2nanaX_3 datcompound
3datdatNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4::PUNCT_8 fixpunct
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs8 fixnsubj
6anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 himdet
7himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 youconj
8fixfixVERBVerbForm=Inf3 datacl
9planplanNOUNNumber=Sing8 fixobj
10fuhfuhINTJ_9 plandiscourse
11killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf8 fixxcomp
12meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 killobj
13wuhwuhINTJ_14 bindiscourse
14binbinVERBNumber=Sing8 fixadvcl:relcl
15youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs14 binobj
16frenfrenNOUNNumber=Plur14 binobj
17,,PUNCT_19 robpunct
18anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 robdet
19robrobVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 datparataxis
20meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 robobj
21outerouterADJDegree=Pos23 moneyamod
22wuhwuhINTJ_23 moneydiscourse
23moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing26 leffnsubj
24meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 leffnsubj
25habhabNOUNNumber=Sing26 leffcompound
26leffleffNOUNNumber=Sing19 robparataxis
27..PUNCT_3 datpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fixinfinitiveyouplantree rules
2killinfinitiveyou not said heremevn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3bininfinitiveyou not said hereyoufren objtree rules
4robinfinitivemevn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
5leffouter moneyme nsubjtree rules

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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