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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mo | Mo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 2 | na | na | X | _ | 3 dat | compound |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fix | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fix | nsubj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 him | det |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | conj |
| 8 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dat | acl |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fix | obj |
| 10 | fuh | fuh | INTJ | _ | 9 plan | discourse |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fix | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 14 bin | discourse |
| 14 | bin | bin | VERB | Number=Sing | 8 fix | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bin | obj |
| 16 | fren | fren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bin | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rob | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rob | det |
| 19 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dat | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rob | obj |
| 21 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 money | amod |
| 22 | wuh | wuh | INTJ | _ | 23 money | discourse |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leff | nsubj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 leff | nsubj |
| 25 | hab | hab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leff | compound |
| 26 | leff | leff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rob | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | infinitive | you | plan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bin | infinitive | you not said here | you | fren obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | rob | infinitive | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | |||||
| 5 | leff | outer money | me nsubj | tree 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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